Dave T. wrote:
> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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>.
>>
>> 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 am that guy you may have heard of who
> thinks that Vista is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Damn! I'd heard of that legendary (& solitary) guy but I never thought
I'd meet him! <grin>

>
> 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?
>

You ought to be fine. I wander into the weeds when I start expecting
data portability for my calendaring...

hth,
-Craig