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Does Recuva contains a trojan?


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#1 OFFLINE   SomeBooks

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Posted 11 February 2008 - 09:43 PM

Excuse me, may be i'm wrong, but i recently downloaded Recuva v. 1.10.223 and my antivirus (AVG) found a trojan as displayed below:
Object name: uninst.exe
Object path: C:\Program files\Recuva
Discovery: Trojan horse Downloader.Zlob.UAQ

Could, anyone of you, explain me the reason?
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Posted 11 February 2008 - 10:18 PM

There are several other threads explaining this. AVG (incorrectly) showed this trojan in the uninst.exe files of CC, Recuva and Defraggler. The latest a/v database from AVG does not flag this as a trojan, the resolution is to update AVG. There is no slur on either Piriform or AVG!