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    R500 Virus

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by scoobyscrappy, Oct 22, 2008.

  1. scoobyscrappy

    scoobyscrappy Newbie

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    Hello,

    I just received the R500 which is cool and almost completely silent. I have returned HP laptops because of the heat and fan noise.

    Back to the original post. I purchased the laptop with the integrated webcam and I installed antivir, comodo firewall and spyware terminator. I generally run a full scan before I do any serious work on the laptop.

    I did a full scan using spyware terminator and it discovered a trojan:

    Remove Trojan.Dropper.Joiner.ea
    Deleted File: c:\SWTOOLS\Apps\cameracenter\vista3264\setup.exe
    Deleted File: c:\SWTOOLS\Apps\cameracenter\vista3264-Silent\setup.exe

    I don't know if the software reported a false positive but I took no chances. I will call Lenovo about this.

    Jeff
     
    scoobyscrappy, Oct 22, 2008
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    sbegone Newbie

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    I noticed the same 2 files in the same location with Comodo and the Lenovo W500

    Did you ever get an answer from Lenovo or confirmation if this was a false positive?

    Thanks.
     
    sbegone, Feb 15, 2009
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  3. mrjohn

    mrjohn Notebook Consultant

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    Upload to VirusTotal and Jotti online virusscan, if only "fringe" products pick them up (i.e., anything other than Kaspersky, Norton, ESET Nod32, Avira, Avast and McAffee) it's probably a false positive.
     
    mrjohn, Feb 15, 2009
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    QualitySeeker Notebook Consultant

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    havoc531 Notebook Evangelist

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    Lenovo cam software in my U330 was flagged as a virus by AVG.

    I suspect it is a false positive, but I do not use OEM software in any case so I wiped the computer.
     
    havoc531, Feb 15, 2009
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