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Jones   05-02-2005 at 12:48:41 PM

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[H]ardNews 5th Edition Sunday May 01, 2005

Posted by Sean 7:39 PM (CDT)
Steam Virus:
Gary one our [H]ard|Readers sent me in this screen shot of Panda
Anti-Virus picking up an infection located in the "c:\program
files\valve\steam\steamclient.dll". If you have seen this before, or
it has happend to you, let me know

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Anonymous   05-02-2005 at 12:48:42 PM
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Jones wrote:

> Gary one our [H]ard|Readers sent me in this screen shot of Panda
> Anti-Virus picking up an infection located in the "c:\program
> files\valve\steam\steamclient.dll". If you have seen this before, or
> it has happend to you, let me know

Could you give me a direct link to the article?
Probably a false alert from Panda AV

rgds

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Anonymous   05-03-2005 at 02:06:22 AM
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"Peter [AGHL]" <peter.aghl@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1115023912.661118.325280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
> Jones wrote:
>
>> Gary one our [H]ard|Readers sent me in this screen shot of Panda
>> Anti-Virus picking up an infection located in the "c:\program
>> files\valve\steam\steamclient.dll". If you have seen this before, or
>> it has happend to you, let me know
>
> Could you give me a direct link to the article?
> Probably a false alert from Panda AV
>
> rgds

Interesting. AVG7 Pro and Trojan Hunter have nothing bad to say about
Steam.
McG.

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shawk   05-03-2005 at 03:26:31 AM
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"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2Lvde.50974$hu5.44521@tornado.texas.rr.com...
> "Peter [AGHL]" <peter.aghl@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1115023912.661118.325280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
>> Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Gary one our [H]ard|Readers sent me in this screen shot of Panda
>>> Anti-Virus picking up an infection located in the "c:\program
>>> files\valve\steam\steamclient.dll". If you have seen this before, or
>>> it has happend to you, let me know
>>
>> Could you give me a direct link to the article?
>> Probably a false alert from Panda AV
>>
>> rgds
>
> Interesting. AVG7 Pro and Trojan Hunter have nothing bad to say about
> Steam.
> McG.
>

Hmm. Neither has McAfee, Adaware or Spybot. Usual bullshit rumours or
something in Panda? (I've never heard of that AV)

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Anonymous   05-02-2005 at 07:25:54 PM
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> Interesting. AVG7 Pro and Trojan Hunter
> have nothing bad to say about Steam.

Neither does Trend Officescan

- Peter

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Anonymous   05-03-2005 at 03:26:32 AM
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"Shawk" <shawk@clara.co.uk.3guesses> wrote in message
news:1115065406.349.0@nnrp-t71-03.news.uk.clara.net
> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2Lvde.50974$hu5.44521@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>> "Peter [AGHL]" <peter.aghl@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1115023912.661118.325280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
>>> Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gary one our [H]ard|Readers sent me in this screen shot of Panda
>>>> Anti-Virus picking up an infection located in the "c:\program
>>>> files\valve\steam\steamclient.dll". If you have seen this before,
>>>> or it has happend to you, let me know
>>>
>>> Could you give me a direct link to the article?
>>> Probably a false alert from Panda AV
>>>
>>> rgds
>>
>> Interesting. AVG7 Pro and Trojan Hunter have nothing bad to say
>> about Steam.
>> McG.
>>
>
> Hmm. Neither has McAfee, Adaware or Spybot. Usual bullshit rumours
> or something in Panda? (I've never heard of that AV)

Panda? I think it's a free one, not sure. I've heard of it but not
used it.
McG.

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Anonymous   05-03-2005 at 06:09:34 AM
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McGrandpa wrote:
> "Peter [AGHL]" <peter.aghl@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1115023912.661118.325280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
>
>>Jones wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Gary one our [H]ard|Readers sent me in this screen shot of Panda
>>>Anti-Virus picking up an infection located in the "c:\program
>>>files\valve\steam\steamclient.dll". If you have seen this before, or
>>>it has happend to you, let me know
>>
>>Could you give me a direct link to the article?
>>Probably a false alert from Panda AV
>>
>>rgds
>
>
> Interesting. AVG7 Pro and Trojan Hunter have nothing bad to say about
> Steam.

Make sure to note that it came using HEURISTIC scan mode, which attempts
to predict if a file MAY be a virus without matching any known virus
signature strings. This mode is known to produce many false positives.

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Anonymous   05-03-2005 at 06:13:48 AM
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McGrandpa wrote:
> "Shawk" <shawk@clara.co.uk.3guesses> wrote in message
> news:1115065406.349.0@nnrp-t71-03.news.uk.clara.net
>
>>"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:2Lvde.50974$hu5.44521@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>>
>>>"Peter [AGHL]" <peter.aghl@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:1115023912.661118.325280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
>>>
>>>>Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Gary one our [H]ard|Readers sent me in this screen shot of Panda
>>>>>Anti-Virus picking up an infection located in the "c:\program
>>>>>files\valve\steam\steamclient.dll". If you have seen this before,
>>>>>or it has happend to you, let me know
>>>>
>>>>Could you give me a direct link to the article?
>>>>Probably a false alert from Panda AV
>>>>
>>>>rgds
>>>
>>>Interesting. AVG7 Pro and Trojan Hunter have nothing bad to say
>>>about Steam.
>>>McG.
>>>
>>
>>Hmm. Neither has McAfee, Adaware or Spybot. Usual bullshit rumours
>>or something in Panda? (I've never heard of that AV)
>
>
> Panda? I think it's a free one, not sure. I've heard of it but not
> used it.
> McG.
>
>

A good place to ask would be news://news.grc.com/grc.security.software
Lots of interesting discussion there, as well as the other GRC newsgroups.

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jethro   05-03-2005 at 06:11:11 PM
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Shawk wrote:
> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2Lvde.50974$hu5.44521@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>
>>"Peter [AGHL]" <peter.aghl@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:1115023912.661118.325280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
>>
>>>Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Gary one our [H]ard|Readers sent me in this screen shot of Panda
>>>>Anti-Virus picking up an infection located in the "c:\program
>>>>files\valve\steam\steamclient.dll". If you have seen this before, or
>>>>it has happend to you, let me know
>>>
>>>Could you give me a direct link to the article?
>>>Probably a false alert from Panda AV
>>>
>>>rgds
>>
>>Interesting. AVG7 Pro and Trojan Hunter have nothing bad to say about
>>Steam.
>>McG.
>>
>
>
> Hmm. Neither has McAfee, Adaware or Spybot. Usual bullshit rumours or
> something in Panda? (I've never heard of that AV)
>
>

AVG is from Grisoft. A free antivirus solution. Another is Avast from Avast.
I use both together now instead of Norton 2005 as it let something in
and got disabled\destroyed.

--
Jethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Pinger
Reply Email: jethro86 (at) gmail (dot) com

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Anonymous   05-04-2005 at 05:34:41 AM
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"Polarhound" <Polarhound@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:SIadnSElVKE5ZOvfRVn-hA@comcast.com
> McGrandpa wrote:
>> "Peter [AGHL]" <peter.aghl@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1115023912.661118.325280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
>>
>>> Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Gary one our [H]ard|Readers sent me in this screen shot of Panda
>>>> Anti-Virus picking up an infection located in the "c:\program
>>>> files\valve\steam\steamclient.dll". If you have seen this before,
>>>> or it has happend to you, let me know
>>>
>>> Could you give me a direct link to the article?
>>> Probably a false alert from Panda AV
>>>
>>> rgds
>>
>>
>> Interesting. AVG7 Pro and Trojan Hunter have nothing bad to say
>> about Steam.
>
> Make sure to note that it came using HEURISTIC scan mode, which
> attempts to predict if a file MAY be a virus without matching any
> known virus signature strings. This mode is known to produce many
> false positives.

I use "deep heuristics" in AVG7, and it's popped a few things coming in
that nothing else did. I appreciate it a lot when both AVG and TH go
off at the same time :)
McG.

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