Google Earth is a trojan?

Go to http://earth.google.com/ and click the "Download Google Earth 4.3" button, then "Agree and Download" (I'm using Firefox). ESS then finds "a variant of Win32/Kryptik.EI trojan" in the Temp folder as a ".part" file (used by Firefox to signify incomplete downloads). Maybe it really is a trojan, but I find this a little peculiar.

 

Hi:

I took a bold try and downloaded the file without incidents.
Which version of ESS are you running and what is your update file?
I downloaded with Opera 10 alpha, my ESS is V4.0.68 beta updated to signature 3755.

See the pick of the file:

 

I had the same problem,

09/01/2009 06:10:50 PM
Real-time protection of the file system
C: \ Documents and Settings \ JORGE LUIS \ Local Settings \ Temporary Internet Files \ Content.IE5 \ 4JOI5KIH \ Google Updater [1]. Exe a variant Win32/Kryptik.

And now I do not believe that have silently corrected this false positive.

 

cocolucho what browser are you using?

 

As an interim solution, you could try downloading it with Firefox or disable web protection for a while while you download the file.

 

Internet Explorer 8 Beta - 8.0.0600.18241

 

I am using FF - 3.0.5.

I think I have the strictest settings toggled for the advanced setup tree - advanced heuristics on everything, check for potentially unsafe programs on everything, etc.

I have disabled ESS and downloaded it without problems (well, duh). It takes forever to execute, but doesn't register any trojans or anything.