What's your opinion on this A2 findings?

[sweater]

Startup Mechanic was also some kind of spyware program detector, when installing their newer version 2.5 it also bundles a program Foxie Suite, so I also installed it. But after A2 Squared scans it identifies them as Trojan.

What should I do? Is it really possible that the trusted anti-trojan scanner can make a mistakes?

[sweater]

I forgot to attach this snap shot from my above question.

Here's the findings it found by A2 after the scans...

[Don Pelotas]

You better contact them, most likely a FP.

Hi Guys, I noticed download.com has removed foxie from its listings, most likely because it contains malware? This may not be a false positive. Is foxie force installed from Startup Mechanic?

[sweater]

What made me think twice and hesitates was that only A2 squared detects them as Trojans, while my Ewido scanner (and other scanners) didn't recognize them as Trojans. So I can't really decide if I can really trust this findings.

While download.com has removed foxie from its listings, I would trust a².

[bellgamin]

A-squared evaluates a file based on how that file ACTS as well as based on signatures. If a file ACTS like a nasty, A-squared will flag it.

I often get an alert flag from A-squared when installing an anti-malware program. For example, both A-squared and DrWeb flagged BitDefender's updater as I was installing a trial copy. I THINK this was because BD's updater wants to install a little *server* in my computer -- that's also a typical action of a trojan.

I do NOT want A-squared or DrWeb to stop letting me know when they spot such malware-like actions. I would rather have the minor inconvenience of having to exclude friendly programs from such scans INSTEAD OF having a possible nasty get in because my protection is trying to avoid a False Positive at all costs.

When it comes to security programs I prefer a Rottweiler to a kitty cat. A-squared is a Rottweiler. Grrrrrr. "Sic 'em, boy!"

[AshG]

This is starting to make more sense... I also see CCleaner being tagged as Trojan-Dropper on my machine, now I'm assuming it's due to the run-time update notifier being detected. Sounds like I should be emailing CCleaner about this, not A2. Or I could email them both and see where it goes...

[RuntimeWare]

This A-Squared app sounds very interesting - for those of us too lazy to google it, could someone provide a link?

[Mongol]

Originally Posted by RuntimeWare

This A-Squared app sounds very interesting - for those of us too lazy to google it, could someone provide a link?

Here yah go: http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/personal/

[sweater]

Startup Mechanic 2.5 and Foxie Suite are both anti-spyware programs and also free. I was then now thinking that there's really some kind of cold war between and among anti-spywares programs.. .. and maybe, some of them will try knocking out one another..

[peter.ewido]

We just had a look at the uninst.exe of the foxie installation we have in our whitelist and this file is definitely clean - looks like a false positive of a² on the NSIS installer... And CCleaner should also not get detected, at least not by the filescanner.