Craig wrote:
> Dave T. wrote:
>> TeddyBare wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "Dave T." <davey@MyPlace.net> wrote in message
>>> news:16fMj.1327$7Z2.1181@newssvr12.news.prodigy.ne t...
>>>> I just bought phone tools v. 5.0 to use with my Razr v3, and prior
>>>> to installation I scanned the disk and found that a worm named
>>>> "worm.win32.autorun.k" was on the disk. Obviously, I didn't install
>>>> the program. Kaspersky calls this a "High Risk" item.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know how or why this would be there, or is this a
>>>> false-positive?
>>>> --
>>>> Dave T.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Your attitude serves as a lens through which you see life, and it's
>>>> best when that lens is focused on the positive possibilities." -
>>>> Ralph Marston
>>>
>>>
>>> The Best Buy in Ogden, UT has been notified and they are looking into
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Have you contacted the store you bought it from about it as they will
>>> want to know so they can take action.
>>
>> Not certain at this point what to do. I get absolutely no response
>> from Motorola, but they are famous for that.
>>
>> I scanned the file at Virusscan.jotti and virustotal, and only one or
>> two engines threw up a flag on each of them, and they all warned of a
>> different piece of malware. I am beginning to feel that it is a
>> false-positive, but paranoia has me in it's grip. d8(>
>>
>> What I find REALLY odd is that on the Motorola forum no one has ever
>> heard of Version 5.
>>
>
> Dave;
>
> I took a look at my MPT (version 4.5.6a August 07) and found a file
> named MPT_TEST_info.exe (marked as version 3.1.1.0). I submitted it to
> jotti and it came back clean, no malware alerts whatsoever. The md5
> hash on the file is: c9345168269bf47b722a92f22f321beb.
>
> Interestingly, MPT_TEST_info is compiled by AutoIt
> <http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/compiled.html>. The author of
> autoit talks about getting false positives pretty regularly. He's
> asked that anyone who gets a false positive to follow up w/the developer
> and to feel free to drop him a line as well...
> <http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/compiled.html> (the contact linky
> is busted but here's one that works:
> <http://www.autoitscript.com/email_us.shtml>
>
> Fwiw, I've used bvrp's MPT for a few years now and find the quality &
> flexibility of the s/w to be seriously lacking. I don't use Outlook nor
> Lotus Notes so the whole experience has been... kludgy. The support's
> been ok for me but it just adds to this feeling that my data is being
> managed by a black box. Because of my experience w/MPT, my next choice
> of phones will depend on an open source project being available to
> support it. Either that or, at the very least the "semi-open" S60 OS.
>
> g'luck & please keep us up-to-date
>
> -Craig
>

My ver. of that app is 3.2.4.9. Based on your info, I'm going to do a
fresh clone and then go ahead and try to install it. My paranoia is
based on the simple fact that I am that guy you may have heard of who
thinks that Vista is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Miles more
stable than XP. One year this month, and not even a small problem. I
guess I just want to be very careful not to screw it up because I do a
lot of audio work with Audacity software.

I'm not looking to do a lot with MPT. Basically all I really want is to
back up contacts and upload photos. Do you experience any difficulties
with that?

--
Dave T.


"Your attitude serves as a lens through which you see life, and it's
best when that lens is focused on the positive possibilities." - Ralph
Marston