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Subject: Re: Strange virus found.

Author: Georg Langrath

Date: 12:48:34 11/06/05

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On November 06, 2005 at 13:39:59, Robert Hollay wrote:

>On November 06, 2005 at 13:33:00, 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
>>
>>To be on the safe side I reinstalled Chessmaster 10th. Kasperskys antivirus
>>still looks at it as a virus. I don't believe it. I think Kasperskys is wrong.
>>Georg
>
>Surely many people have Chessmaster installed, so it's very unlikely that it
>has a virus. Virus is possible only in some illegal copies. So I think that
>you'll have to uninstall Kaspersky and to use another AV.
>
>Robert

Yes, I have done so.
Kaspersky won a test in Sweden, because it found most viruses of the anti virus
programs :)

Georg



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