Same?

[trenzterra]

I don't know whether its the right forum, but I want to ask:


You know those stuff where some antivirus programs detect that this installer has viruses inside?


Does this happen to almost every installer?


Because it happened in Inno Setup.

[meow]

False alerts you mean? I know McAfee is a pain when it comes to that but it doesn't report every installation file as contaminated.

Never happened to me - but I don't use McAfee. Do you?

[Jan]

Uhhhhh more information please trenz :confused:

[trenzterra]

I read this from Inno's newsgroup and one program said that it had the RadLight thing inside. Heres the full message:

I just ran PestPatrol 3.1
(http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=911) on my computer.
According to its makers, PestPatrol is "a powerful anti-hacker utility that
finds and eliminates hacker tools, spyware and trojans from your personal
computer or corporate network."

One of the files it marked as a pest file was the unins000.exe file that is
shipped with Inno Setup. More specifically, it claimed it contained the
RadLight trojan. This is what the PestPatrol database says about RadLight:

---
Installs SaveNow.
NewNet is also installed and performs a great deal of damage to your
internet connection. The sporder.dll is installed on your computer with the
newdotnet3_36.dll. Winsock entries are adjusted and not fixed after
un-install, re-connecting after an un-install would be difficult.
Additionally Ad-Aware files
and registry entries are removed. The uninstaller does not perform all
functions required for a full uninstall.

Category: Trojan.
Any program with a hidden intent. Trojans are one of the leading causes of
breaking into machines. If you pull down a program from a chat room, new
group, or even from unsolicited e-mail, then the program is likely trojaned
with some subversive purpose. The word Trojan can be used as a verb: To
trojan a program is to add subversive functionality to an existing program.
For example, a trojaned login program might be programmed to accept a
certain password for any user's account that the hacker can use to log back
into the system at any time. Rootkits often contain a suite of such trojaned
programs.
---

I can hardly believe that one of the Inno Setup files would contain a
trojan, especially since I can't detect any of the symptoms described for
RadLight on my computer (e.g. the dll files). This would suggest it's a
false alarm. Does anyone know more about this?

Thanks!
Ron