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falcon409

falcon409

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I run Eset Node32 Antivirus (not my preference it just came loaded with the computer) and occasionally I have to shut it down temporarily while I download files because it won't allow them to completely finish.

Today, while in an MP session, I see a flag pop up from Eset in the task bar that says something to the effect that it has tagged FSUIPC as a possible Trojan Threat and it has been quarantined and will be deleted after the next restart. . . . .which it accomplished immediately, lol. It just shut down and did a restart, lol.

I went into the modules folder in FS9 and sure enough. . .it was gone. Anyone ever had this happen to them or know how to combat this? I know how. . .uninstall Esest Node32. . .bada bing bada boom. . .yer outta here. I won't hesitate at all to dump it and find a simple antivirus program I can run without having it randomly pick files out of my PC and delete them on the fly. What a load of HS.
 
Hey Falcon,

Give Avast a try. It was recomended to me by Francois Dumas and I have had nothing but good luck with it so far. :wavey:

LouP
 
LouP said:
Hey Falcon,
Give Avast a try. It was recommended to me by Francois Dumas and I have had nothing but good luck with it so far.
LouP
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Thanks Lou! I had forgotten about Avast. . .I think that's what I used several PC's ago, lol.
 
are you sure that your FSUIPC wasn't actually infected with a real virus? I have NOD32 installed on 5 PCs at home, and 65+ PCs at my studio...and never had a problem. Each time it detected something, it was the real deal.

what was the virus it caught in FSUIPC? Since FSUIPC is a .DLL file, it can harbor viruses...(check the log to see what it caught, then google the virus name).

-feng
 
FengZ said:
are you sure that your FSUIPC wasn't actually infected with a real virus? I have NOD32 installed on 5 PCs at home, and 65+ PCs at my studio...and never had a problem. Each time it detected something, it was the real deal.
what was the virus it caught in FSUIPC? Since FSUIPC is a .DLL file, it can harbor viruses...(check the log to see what it caught, then google the virus name).
-feng
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I downloaded the FSUIPC file from Dawson's website, not that it makes it free of a virus, but it would have caught the eye of a lot of folks had it been so as this is a widely used utility. All mute now as ESET Nod32 is gone and Avast is in place. I have no time or patience for a lot of things, most noteworthy are slow drivers, people who pull into an intersection and then can't decide if it's their turn to go or not and a program like this that decides on the fly that a file is a hazard.

This isn't the first time Node32 has done this. I've had to reinstall programs in the past because it decided that a dll or some other file critical to the program was a virus and simply removed it and deleted it. So it's gone without even a backward glance. Cya!!!:wavey:
 
Hi Falcon,

I have run Nod32 for about 4 years now and have never had any problems with it.

If you go to the Nod32 settings you set set it to detect and prompt for action, if it picks up on something you know is safe you should be able to ignore it.

My installation did pick up a series of viruses sometime ago which it did delete, but I have never had any conflict with Nod32 and FS9.

Hope this helps.
 
falcon409 said:
I downloaded the FSUIPC file from Dawson's website, not that it makes it free of a virus, but it would have caught the eye of a lot of folks had it been so as this is a widely used utility. All mute now as ESET Nod32 is gone and Avast is in place. I have no time or patience for a lot of things, most noteworthy are slow drivers, people who pull into an intersection and then can't decide if it's their turn to go or not and a program like this that decides on the fly that a file is a hazard.

This isn't the first time Node32 has done this. I've had to reinstall programs in the past because it decided that a dll or some other file critical to the program was a virus and simply removed it and deleted it. So it's gone without even a backward glance. Cya!!!:wavey:
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The virus you picked up is probably not from the officical Dawson website.

Viruses needs files to be activated for it to attach itself. So most will stay dormant on your PC until you run a program or have a .DLL go into memory. Thus, when you ran FS9, it activated FSUIPC, allowing the virus to attach, and triggering NOD32. NOD32 probably removed a real virus. :) But it's good to hear that everything is back to normal. AVAST is a pretty good scanner too.

To be safe, you should run a system-scan in safemode (or a boot scan if AVAST has that function). Some viruses are very tricky to remove.

-feng
 
FengZ said:
. . . . .To be safe, you should run a system-scan in safemode (or a boot scan if AVAST has that function). Some viruses are very tricky to remove.
-feng
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Yep, it has that function and it was running a boot scan on the initial startup of the utility until it got to about 32% and was scanning Windows32 and lock onto a dll file and stopped cold. I had to restart and that was the end of the boot scan.
 
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