is this download genuine (Avira)

I tried to download a software called Angry IP Scanner to run off my USB stick. When I proceeded to click the download link, Avira popped up and gave me a warniing. Now I'm not sure if Avira is making the error here or this software is a hoax.

Here's the link:

http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/download.php

 

I downloaded and used it from that site, but it was quit some time ago. At that time the app. was quit safe. It is also open source so I have a feeling it is a FP.

 

Avira detects it as SPR/Tool.Angry, which is correct.
It a tool in the (S)ecurity or (P)rivacy (R)isk category.

 

It looks like a riskware type application....

 

Evil site with risky applications

 

http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/



@HiTech_boy; what did you use to get that info. I like it..

 

@DeHollander

SiteAdvisor
http://www.siteadvisor.com/

 

Umm, no. Useful site with excellent applications (Angry IP scanner being the main one). This is incredibly useful in compiling lists of the IPs and hostnames of all computers connected on a lan or even the internet. This in turn is very nice when you are administering the network and need to do a series of tasks (like shutdown the whole network), by using the list.

The other program works quite well in remotely administering windows computers without having to set up a bloated program or have the user detect the process, so that any guests on the computers won't be able to do any malicious activity as long as they are being actively moderated.

Siteadvisor is not some deity that is always correct, and knowledge behind such talk makes the talk much more valid and useful.

To answer the original poster, it always helps to post what your antivirus flags the file as since it will give us the detection and simplify helping you. And yes, the application is perfectly safe, I have it one my jump drive and use it quite often.

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

 

Just one more of the reasons I do not like some one else`s opinions of sites I visit or don`t. Do not like host files either. (but we risk going OT so I am off my soapbox now)

 

@HiTech_boy, thx.

On the subject:

Result from virusscan.jotti.org

A-Squared Found nothing
AntiVir Found SPR/Tool.Angry
ArcaVir Found nothing
Avast Found nothing
AVG Antivirus Found nothing
BitDefender Found nothing
ClamAV Found nothing
Dr.Web Found nothing
F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
F-Secure Anti-Virus Found nothing
Fortinet Found nothing
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing
NOD32 Found nothing
Norman Virus Control Found nothing
Panda Antivirus Found nothing
Rising Antivirus Found nothing
VirusBuster Found nothing
VBA32 Found nothing


And with VirusTotal

AhnLab-V3 2007.5.10.0 05.11.2007 Win-AppCare/Xema111104
AntiVir 7.4.0.15 05.12.2007 no virus found
Authentium 4.93.8 05.12.2007 no virus found
Avast 4.7.997.0 05.11.2007 no virus found
AVG 7.5.0.467 05.12.2007 no virus found
BitDefender 7.2 05.12.2007 no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal 9.00 05.12.2007 no virus found
ClamAV devel-20070416 05.12.2007 no virus found
DrWeb 4.33 05.12.2007 no virus found
eSafe 7.0.15.0 05.10.2007 suspicious Trojan/Worm
eTrust-Vet 30.7.3628 05.11.2007 no virus found
Ewido 4.0 05.12.2007 no virus found
FileAdvisor 1 05.12.2007 No threat detected
Fortinet 2.85.0.0 05.12.2007 suspicious
F-Prot 4.3.2.48 05.12.2007 no virus found
F-Secure 6.70.13030.0 05.11.2007 no virus found
Ikarus T3.1.1.7 05.12.2007 no virus found
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 05.12.2007 no virus found
McAfee 5029 05.11.2007 potentially unwanted program PortScan-Angry
Microsoft 1.2503 05.12.2007 no virus found
NOD32v2 2262 05.12.2007 no virus found
Norman 5.80.02 05.11.2007 no virus found
Panda 9.0.0.4 05.12.2007 Hacktool/AngryScan
Prevx1 V2 05.12.2007 no virus found
Sophos 4.17.0 05.11.2007 no virus foundSunbelt 2.2.907.0 05.12.2007 no virus found
Symantec 10 05.12.2007 no virus found
TheHacker 6.1.6.114 05.12.2007 no virus found
VBA32 3.12.0 05.11.2007 no virus found
VirusBuster 4.3.7:9 05.12.2007 no virus found
Webwasher-Gateway 6.0.1 05.12.2007 Riskware.Tool.Angry

 

Another case of an application being flagged basically because of its` potential use. Nothing more.

 

The SPR category is optional, and actually defaults to "off" in the latest build.

If you are happy to use this type of software, then just click on default values in the extended threat categories section, and there will be no more detections for it.

 

Its Riskware, so you can use it without problems....Certain AVs are more "trigger happy" than others when it comes to Riskware. In the end, its all about "Risk" and what exactly is the definition of that word by various AV vendors.

 

Here is what makes me so angry at the A$$ Hats who pull CR(*P like deliberately falsely marking something as spyware when it is not..

Be it AngryIPScanner or Majic Jelly Bean they absolutely have legitimate purposes and like any management tool can be abused.

(Sort of like Firearms, Cars, Chain Saws & Women.)


Lets say some ^(**& gets in and substitutes a hacked version at some download site for a legitimate version.

The AV Product alerts just like it would with a legitimate version of the product. Then you install it and have to work your a$$ off to clean things up when it trys to get out and you catch it.

AngryIPScanner

AhnLab-V3 2007.6.16.0 06.18.2007 no virus found
AntiVir 7.4.0.32 06.18.2007 no virus found
Authentium 4.93.8 06.16.2007 no virus found
Avast 4.7.997.0 06.18.2007 no virus found
AVG 7.5.0.467 06.17.2007 no virus found
BitDefender 7.2 06.18.2007 no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal 9.00 06.18.2007 no virus found
ClamAV devel-20070416 06.18.2007 no virus found
DrWeb 4.33 06.18.2007 no virus found
eSafe 7.0.15.0 06.17.2007 suspicious Trojan/Worm
eTrust-Vet 30.7.3726 06.18.2007 no virus found
Ewido 4.0 06.18.2007 no virus found
FileAdvisor 1 06.18.2007 Low threat detected
Fortinet 2.85.0.0 06.18.2007 no virus found
F-Prot 4.3.2.48 06.15.2007 no virus found
F-Secure 6.70.13030.0 06.18.2007 no virus found
Ikarus T3.1.1.8 06.18.2007 no virus found
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 06.18.2007 no virus found
McAfee 5054 06.15.2007 potentially unwanted program PortScan-Angry
Microsoft 1.2607 06.18.2007 no virus found
NOD32v2 2336 06.18.2007 no virus found
Norman 5.80.02 06.18.2007 no virus found
Panda 9.0.0.4 06.18.2007 Hacktool/AngryScan




MacAffee and Symantec ware

 

I don't understand why ipscan is tagged as risky software, while nmap isn't