I get a "virus alert" about mouse object

Hello

I keep getting a "virus alert" from my kaspersky AV sayin that the mouse object (kcmouse.mfa) contains Trojan.Win32.Agent.eerw

Kcmouse.mfa is part of MMF2 bonus pack II, so I assume this is an error on the part of my AV.

Still it wants to tell me about this "trojan" often and it is annoying. plus many of my apps use this extension so I can't just delete it.

Any suggestions?

Dave

I searched my particular "virus" on the forum, and got nothing

A search of "trojan" shows That this is likely a false positive - I will follow up with the AV company.

Weird because it just started a few weeks ago...

That's the best thing to do. Report the false positive to Kasperski. :)

Norton has many problems, I'd switch to McAfee personally; I have been using it for 5-6 years, and it has never ever detected one of my applications as anything.

Regards

He's using Kaspersky, not Norton :)

Every one of these virus/trojan false positive alert threads ends up filled with people recommending people to switch antivirus. It's getting a bit ridiculous.

Weird, virustotal doesn't report any problem for kcmouse.mfx, even for Kaspersky AV. Maybe they have already fixed it?

Or, his is actually infected with something. Can't ignore that possibility...

I suppose that is possible

But when I delete kcmouse.mfx the messages stop.

reinstall from a fresh DL of bonus pack 2 and back it comes.

Anyway, I have submitted it. This is in reference to a computer I use at work, so I have to use what the IT department requires.

My personal box (McAffee) shows nothing.


Thanks for the replies!
(it is actually kcmouse.mfx listed in the warning -poor typing on my part...)

Dave

Sorry for bringing this back up. Looks like NOD32 began picking kcmouse.mfx up as a trojan as well.

Yeah, NOD32 is usually very good for avoiding falsies but I can confirm that here.

Not a lot to be done about it though.

I wonder if there's a solution to all the false positive problems. Obviously, as long as the antivirus manifacturers will think the runetime or the extensions are the malicious part of MMF2 applications, this is just going to keep happen everytime somebody creates malware with MMF2.

Yes this is a problem that should be fixed, otherwise it'll keep hurting the reputation of MMF users.

I get emails all the time about people saying a sent them a virus and such. It's getting really old.

The more people who complain about the false positive and post which virus scanners continue to have false positives will help.

We keep talking/informing/threatening virus companies -- some have fixed the problems it seems --- others don't seem to care their product has false positives.... That tells me alot about the quality of their scanner.

So please help us and email and call the companies who have the bad scanners and tell them they are hurting YOUR business because YOUR users think that YOU are distributing virus/malware.