Ares 2.0.2 & Bitdefender 8 Free Edition

Nick0323 · Jan 23, 2007, 07:58 AM

Hi guys & girls.

I have been a user of Ares which is a shareware program for download files for nearly a year now and I have never had any problems with viruses. However I recently changed my Anti-virus and I started using Bitdefender 8 free edition and it is reporting Ares.exe as a "Generic.Malware.SFN!prng.4F25E0A8"

I don't know whether if its to do with the 2.0 version of Ares or whether Bitdefender is falsely identifying it as malware.

Can anyone please shed some light on this for me

Kind regards, Nick.

Nick0323 · Jan 23, 2007, 09:15 AM

Furthermore to this, Ares introduced the windows media player 11 skin with 2.0. bitdefender is reporting the cache of ares, start menu folder and the ares.exe as malware.

Bitdefender managed to heal the "ares.exe" by completely deleting the skin, however the rest is still there and can't be disinfected.

pr0digal jenius · Jan 23, 2007, 01:42 PM

generic.malware probably means bitdefender doesn't like something it's doing...not that it's registered as a known virus.

It may be polling the memory/cache to often, or it may be pulling data/writing data to the system folder or registry or something?

I dunno...bit torrent is an odd fish that I never bothered learning much about the clients on after I discovered I wasn't a fan of the architecture as a whole

Jan 23, 2007, 07:58 AM	#1
Nick0323 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: London Posts: 324 Rep Power: 0	Ares 2.0.2 & Bitdefender 8 Free Edition Hi guys & girls. I have been a user of Ares which is a shareware program for download files for nearly a year now and I have never had any problems with viruses. However I recently changed my Anti-virus and I started using Bitdefender 8 free edition and it is reporting Ares.exe as a "Generic.Malware.SFN!prng.4F25E0A8" I don't know whether if its to do with the 2.0 version of Ares or whether Bitdefender is falsely identifying it as malware. Can anyone please shed some light on this for me Kind regards, Nick. __________________ PSU: Coolermaster iGreen 500W Chipset: nFORCE 750SLi Mobo: ASUS P5N-D, BIOS revision 0601 CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, 12mb cache, 2.66GHz GPU: Gainward Bliss 9600GT, Engine 700MHz, Memory 2GHz, Forceware 175.19) RAM: OCZ Reaper HPC Edition, PC8500 (1066MHz), 2x2GB Sound: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic HDD1: Western Digital Raptor, 160GB, 10,000rpm HDD2: Maxtor Diamondmax 22, 32mb Cache, 7200.11, 500GB HDD3:Maxtor Diamondmax 21, 16mb Cache, 7200.10, 320GB (External via Icy Box) 3D Mark 05 - 17,500 3D Mark 06 - 12,000

Jan 23, 2007, 09:15 AM	#2
Nick0323 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: London Posts: 324 Rep Power: 0	Furthermore to this, Ares introduced the windows media player 11 skin with 2.0. bitdefender is reporting the cache of ares, start menu folder and the ares.exe as malware. Bitdefender managed to heal the "ares.exe" by completely deleting the skin, however the rest is still there and can't be disinfected. __________________ PSU: Coolermaster iGreen 500W Chipset: nFORCE 750SLi Mobo: ASUS P5N-D, BIOS revision 0601 CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, 12mb cache, 2.66GHz GPU: Gainward Bliss 9600GT, Engine 700MHz, Memory 2GHz, Forceware 175.19) RAM: OCZ Reaper HPC Edition, PC8500 (1066MHz), 2x2GB Sound: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic HDD1: Western Digital Raptor, 160GB, 10,000rpm HDD2: Maxtor Diamondmax 22, 32mb Cache, 7200.11, 500GB HDD3:Maxtor Diamondmax 21, 16mb Cache, 7200.10, 320GB (External via Icy Box) 3D Mark 05 - 17,500 3D Mark 06 - 12,000

Jan 23, 2007, 01:42 PM	#3
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,672 Rep Power: 0	generic.malware probably means bitdefender doesn't like something it's doing...not that it's registered as a known virus. It may be polling the memory/cache to often, or it may be pulling data/writing data to the system folder or registry or something? I dunno...bit torrent is an odd fish that I never bothered learning much about the clients on after I discovered I wasn't a fan of the architecture as a whole