Does Silent Bob carry a Doly Trojan?

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Silent Bob is a freeware sound-recording program. It is unique in that
it has a 60-second pre-buffer so that when you're feeding radio audio
through it and you suddenly decide to record somewthing, it includes
everything for the past 60-seconds so that you won't miss the
beginning of it. Their website is www.silent-bob.de/en/long.htm

Recently, a friend who uses Pest Patrol (a commercial program that
claims to identify and remove adware/spyware and the like) said that
Pest Patrol had scanned his computer and concluded that it found "Doly
Trojan 1.6" in Silent Bob. He didn't mention any details, nor did he
say how "sure" Pest Patrol was of its verdict.

Has anyone out there who has used Silent Bob ever noticed any unusual
behavior since installing it?
Has anyone's anti-virus or anti-spyware program ever flagged Silent
Bob as suspect?
Has Pest Patrol ever been known to give off false alarms?

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nospam256K wrote:

> Has anyone out there who has used Silent Bob ever noticed any unusual
> behavior since installing it?
> Has anyone's anti-virus or anti-spyware program ever flagged Silent
> Bob as suspect?
> Has Pest Patrol ever been known to give off false alarms?

Some AV's have false positives, especially with heuristics enabled. I'd
double check the file with Kaspersky or a trojan detector. If it's a
zipped file, make sure the antivirus can read compressed files.

Try to get software from the source or a trusted mirror site.

michael

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"optikl" <optikl@invalid.net> wrote in message
news:BJQXc.321391$a24.95948@attbi_s03...
> nospam256K wrote:
>
>> Has Pest Patrol ever been known to give off false alarms?
>
> lol. Oh maybe once or twice.

That's good! I've never known it to give legitimate ones! ROFL!


Shane

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"Robert Moir" <bofh@mvps.org> wrote in news:2pbdnlFic65rU1@uni-berlin.de:

> optikl wrote:
>> nospam256K wrote:
>>
>>> Has Pest Patrol ever been known to give off false alarms?
>>
>> lol. Oh maybe once or twice.
>
> "... a second"
>
> ?

LOL, I've seen it refered to often as King of false alarms. But then again
even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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>
>

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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:03:36 +0100, "Steven Burn" <pvt@noyb.com>
wrote:

>"nospam256K" <nospam256k@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:24a23015.0408271439.5e864f56@posting.google.com...
>> Has anyone out there who has used Silent Bob ever noticed any unusual
>> behavior since installing it?
>> Has anyone's anti-virus or anti-spyware program ever flagged Silent
>> Bob as suspect?
>> Has Pest Patrol ever been known to give off false alarms?
>
>http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/D/Doly_Trojan.asp


That link at the moment is not working

http://research.pestpatrol.com/ -->works
http://www.pestpatrol.com/ --> down
http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/ --> down
http://www.pestscan.com/Scan.asp --> down

Can anyone else confirm their main site is down?

It also appears that CA(Computer Associates) bought out Pest Patrol:
http://software.silicon.com/securi [...] 237,00.htm
http://www3.ca.com/press/PressRelease.asp?CID=61871

ozzy

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ozzy wrote:

>>http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/D/Doly_Trojan.asp
>
>
>That link at the moment is not working

Fine here
>
>http://research.pestpatrol.com/ -->works
>http://www.pestpatrol.com/ --> down
>http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/ --> down
>http://www.pestscan.com/Scan.asp --> down
>
>Can anyone else confirm their main site is down?

Nope. All above links are working here. UK. Using Opera.