Re: Very Interesting - Records The Screen - Creates Macro For Repeated Tasks (XP-10)

"Allan Higdon" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.freeware
Organization To protect and to server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 08:00:07 -0500, John C. <[email protected]> wrote:

> [email protected] wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 15:05:45 -0500, "Allan Higdon"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:20:45 -0500, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:02:21 -0500, "Allan Higdon"
>>>>>
>>>>> This is one of the programs that I tried to upload to Internet Archive.
>>>>> Since it was flagged as a Trojan on VirusTotal by a few of the AVs that I had never heard of, it wasn't allowed.
>>>>> All the reputable AVs found nothing.
>>>>
>>>> I got 13 Malicious at VirusTotal just moments ago. None of the AVs
>>>> that alarmed on it were name brands. There was 4 Unsupported alarms.
>>>> Those also were nobody AVs.
>>>>
>>>> So, 65 of the AVs, including all the big names like Avast, Kaspersky,
>>>> etc., did not alarm.
>>>>
>>>> I doubt if it really is a malicious download, but I'd pass on it just
>>>> to be safe.  You gotta have some limitation on the number of Malicious
>>>> findings whether name brand AVs or not.
>>>
>>> The limitation should be for VirusTotal.
>>> Quality instead of Quantity, when it comes to AVs.
>>
>> Yeah, it's a conflict.
>
> I just checked the standard download of TinyTask at Virustotal and only
> got one flag by an obscure AV named "MaxSecure" This was out of 74
> security vendors:
>
> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/5e0ccd493f01f7cde38bd8b42ad3ab0fadd00b1970f9f1b7e8204dfdc000436f
>
> Same result when I rescanned it. Claimed it contained the
> "Win.MxResIcn.Heur.Gen" Trojan.
>

The file that you checked has the name "ReMouseStandard-Setup.exe", and the size is 5.37MB.
I checked TinyTask again, and it was flagged by 10 AVs (obscure to me) out of 65. Its size is only 36KB.
The TinyTask download is at https://thetinytask.com/download/
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