Listen Up Possible Trojans in "Free" Utilities

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jeallen01

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We've all read about the "load" that some recent versions of CCleaner carried, and I know this is probably preaching to the converted, but yesterday I came across a couple more because IOLO SYSTEM MECHANIC "SYSTEM SHIELD" (which I had never used before) threw up some deep in the files of:
- "Hirens Boot Disk"
- "Partition Magic 2000" (OK, I know it's an old version, but it still basically works on more modern WIN OS's.)

Took me quite a time to clean out all the instances of both utilities from my system & NAS.

BTW: Norton Security Premium had consistently failed to identify either of those

So, anyone got any other similar warnings?
 
I assume you're referring to effects upon Microsoft Windows OSs ??
 
Some tools may contains bits of programs to do special work \ give special permissions \ acceess and change restricted parts of the os, disk, files etc etc. So got similarities with malware and can get flagged as rogues although not doing any harm (except by how the pc owner uses those programs :O)

I've got some safe tools\programs 'detected' by malwarebytes, I put them in scan exclusion.
But these days one never know, so unless 101% sure, be careful & do some extensive googling and read user reports.
 
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