Winamp Contains Virus ?????

Shiznet1067 · 20th August 2005, 05:53

My virus scanner just detected winamp as Backdoor.Win32.Bifrose.D. I know for a fact it cant be a false positive. I get the same thing for limewire. Can someone please tell me this.

biggman15 · 20th August 2005, 06:12

It's a False Positive... Limewire is Clean too... What Virus scanner is it??

Shiznet1067 · 20th August 2005, 06:25

Limewire is not clean like it says it is. It comes with webp2p and i really doubt bitdefender will give out false positives. Come on.

siebe83 · 20th August 2005, 06:48

which virus scanner?

what does the report say exactly?

drewbar · 20th August 2005, 08:37

Winamp does not contain a virus. But for some reason a few virus scanners tend to give false-positives on NSIS Installers. And there is no such thing as a 100% accurate virus scanner. There will always be false positives.

Mr_Sako · 24th August 2005, 04:33

different spyware and virus scanners are picky about different things. just know that none of them are right all the time

DJ Egg · 24th August 2005, 11:33

"i really doubt bitdefender will give out false positives"

Backdoor.win32.bifrose.d

There's a reference there to one of the filenames involved being pxwma.dll

%System%\pxwma.dll is part of the Sonic Burning/Ripping Engine and is a totally legit file. Therefore, I suggest you report this to the makers of BitDefender asap :/

20th August 2005, 05:53	#1
Shiznet1067 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 18	Winamp Contains Virus ????? My virus scanner just detected winamp as Backdoor.Win32.Bifrose.D. I know for a fact it cant be a false positive. I get the same thing for limewire. Can someone please tell me this.

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24th August 2005, 11:33	#7
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,124	"i really doubt bitdefender will give out false positives" Backdoor.win32.bifrose.d There's a reference there to one of the filenames involved being pxwma.dll %System%\pxwma.dll is part of the Sonic Burning/Ripping Engine and is a totally legit file. Therefore, I suggest you report this to the makers of BitDefender asap :/ Playlist -\|- Twitter

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20th August 2005, 06:12	#2
biggman15 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Missouri Posts: 431	It's a False Positive... Limewire is Clean too... What Virus scanner is it??

20th August 2005, 06:25	#3
Shiznet1067 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 18	Limewire is not clean like it says it is. It comes with webp2p and i really doubt bitdefender will give out false positives. Come on.

24th August 2005, 04:33	#6
Mr_Sako Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 70	different spyware and virus scanners are picky about different things. just know that none of them are right all the time