UAK False Positives? Report Them Here Please!

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Chester170
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UAK False Positives? Report Them Here Please!

Post by Chester170 »

Hi all! :)

Do you have any FPs appearing on Ultra Adware Killer?
If you have please report them here if you would be so kind! I will remove them ASAP!


Thanks and best regards!

Bruno Santos
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Re: UAK False Positives? Report Them Here Please!

Post by Charger440 »

I have had UAK report rKill in the thirdparty folder of UVK. It happened just yesterday actually.
Jim

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wmmiller
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Re: UAK False Positives? Report Them Here Please!

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:) No fp's for me, but hi Bruno. nice to hear from you.
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Chester170
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Re: UAK False Positives? Report Them Here Please!

Post by Chester170 »

Hi Jim and Bill.

I will see why this is happening Jim ASAP! Thank you!

And Bill thanks. How are you doing?
eventvwr
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Re: UAK False Positives? Report Them Here Please!

Post by eventvwr »

Ultra Adware Killer is reporting AutoHotkey's script-to-executable as malware, Ahk2Exe.exe, usually found under %SystemDrive%\Program Files\AutoHotkey\Compiler\Ahk2Exe.exe. Similarly, it reports the all-user start menu link as malware too.

While I can see that the tool can be used to possibly create malware, I would not consider it malware itself.
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Post by wmmiller »

I'm not seeing this.

Edit: I may not understand what I'm/You are talking about.
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eventvwr
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Re: UAK False Positives? Report Them Here Please!

Post by eventvwr »

Having removed the files and reinstalling, I think it may have been either a download-specific infection or that particular version, as it did not report the new one. I'd have to check the project's changelog to verify, but I'll have to assume the UAK report was correct.

EDIT: What I did was compare a newly downloaded copy from the origin to the current one, and it reported a difference.
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