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Subject: Re: Strange virus found.

Author: Georg Langrath

Date: 05:31:08 11/06/05

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On November 06, 2005 at 07:20:51, Robert Hollay wrote:

>On November 06, 2005 at 06:41:05, Georg Langrath wrote:
>
>>On November 06, 2005 at 06:06:15, Georg Langrath wrote:
>>
>>>I have installed Chessmaster 10th edition a week ago. Today I tried a new virus
>>>program "Kasperskys Antivirus Personal". It said that my file "Chessmaster
>>>Settings" was a Trojan virus". There was no other way than to erase it. Isn't
>>>that rather strange? My  Virus program I had before didn't tell me it was a
>>>virus.
>>>I have a file for "NoCd" but that file hadn't any virus according to the virus
>>>program.
>>>I don't know what to believe.
>>>
>>>Georg Langrath
>>
>>I mean file "Cmsettings.exe"
>>Georg
>
> I don't have Chessmaster so I cannot comment on it's installed files. But I
>have rather bad experiences with Kaspersky AV. Maybe you should try other
>antivirus softwares as well and see what's going on.
> Have you tried AVG (freeware - my favorit), or Avast?

I had AVG. It didn't find the file "CMsettings.exe" as a virus. The problem is:
"How do I know which of the virus programs that is right?

Georg



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