Greatis Shortcut Antivirus

[FanJ]

Greatis (known from RegRun, UnhackMe, etc) has released a free program called "Shortcut Antivirus".
http://www.greatis.com/security/shortcut_antivirus.html

Shortcut Antivirus is a free of charge software for protecting against vulnerability in Windows Shell that incorrectly parses shortcuts (LNK files).

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Shortcut Antivirus combines protection and removal tools!
Shortcut Antivirus is able to protect against infection and remove infected files.
The infected shortcuts will be automatically blocked and you will be prompted to delete infected files.

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Supported Windows XP SP1-3/2003/VISTA/Seven 32bit.
Compatible with all known antiviral software.
Version 1.0.1.2 released August 9 2010

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The Shortcut Antivirus setups own IconHandler shell DLL and checks every displayed shortcut with LNK or PIF extension.
If it detects that shortcut may use Shell vulnerability then the Shortcut Antivirus displays the "blocked" icon and prevents infection.

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Note!

Shortcut Antivirus can cause the false positive alerts on the Control Panel shortcuts.
It is not a bug. It is a behaviour by design.

Shortcut Antivirus is simple and free for non-commercial use.

Notes by me:
I have not tried it (and I'm afraid that I have about almost zero time to test things for quite some time to come....).

[sg09]

Hmm thanks for the news. A very limited tool. The name Antivirus is misleading.

[FanJ]

Originally Posted by sg09

Hmm thanks for the news. A very limited tool. The name Antivirus is misleading.

Hi sg09,

Yes, I agree with you about that name "Antivirus" !

PS: I thought that I should mention the tool, but (as I said) I have not tested it and I don't know how it compares with the MS out-of-band fix from last week. So it is only info.....

[CloneRanger]

Another variation on the theme. Just like buses, you wait and wait, and all of a sudden along come several all at once

Still sounds good, and different to the other fixes/patches, so very welcome Might try it, thanks for posting

[sg09]

@FanJ: No Problem.. But useful tool indeed as it probably detects them realtime... As I get from the youtube video...