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RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg
There is no virus in Messenger Plus!. The warning you get is a false warning from AVG, so nothing to worry about.

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Originally posted by Patchou
after many people reported a trojan was installing with Messenger Plus!, I started to worry. Any moderate/advanced user know very well that if a trojan was installed with my software, a lot of other signs would be present than an anti-virus warning (like firewall alerts). Nevertheless, this certainely doesn't give a good idea to users in general. I contacted the sponsor company, they did some research, and as I suspected, some anti-virus (none of the major companies though) wrongly detect a trojan called Trojan.Download.Swizz in one of the setup files that the sponsor unpacks in your temporary directory.

Unfortunatly, the company that made AVG is very reluctant to remove this false warning. Why? We don't know, but there is certainly no virus in Messenger Plus!.

I suggest to switch to a proper virusscanner (Norton, McAffee, etc...) instead of a free one.

This post was edited on 11-23-2004 at 06:10 PM by CookieRevised.
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Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by boy46 on 11-23-2004 at 06:03 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by CookieRevised on 11-23-2004 at 06:09 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by Caboose on 11-23-2004 at 06:10 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by boy46 on 11-23-2004 at 06:32 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by Weyzza on 11-23-2004 at 06:46 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by Pr0xY on 11-23-2004 at 07:07 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by Patchou on 11-23-2004 at 08:36 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by _Humphreys on 11-23-2004 at 11:06 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by Chrono on 11-23-2004 at 11:12 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by _Humphreys on 11-23-2004 at 11:14 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by Chrono on 11-23-2004 at 11:16 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by thc2010 on 11-23-2004 at 11:20 PM
RE: Virus with Trojan-Downloader.Win32 Swizzor.cg - by Chrono on 11-23-2004 at 11:25 PM


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