See the comments in this post. Anyone experience one in a VSTi? I've been on the fence posting lesser known software based synths. On the one hand I want to promote people new and experimenting, on the other, bad seeds are always a risk. Feel free to comment.
Update via X-Dark in the comments: "Please read this as well : http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=286095&start=0"
Update via Mr. Soza in the comments: "ZoneAlarm False Positive.
The main DLL file actually appears to be clean.
I checked it out myself.
(FYI - I used to write AV signatures & am a malware/security engineer by day).
Infected VSTi's are not new, this primarily affects "cracked" software and stuff you grab from P2P networks.
Though its always possible even for legit sites / apps to be compromised by bad guys so you do have to be somewhat cautious on the internet in general.
My advice to all is be suspicious of anything you download.
Especially when it comes from P2P, blogs or file share sites like RapidShare, MegaUpload, etc...
When in doubt, submit the file(s) to Virustotal for a scan against all the major AV vendors.
Go to www.virustotal.com and upload the files (unzip them first).
To see the results for this VSTi in question, go here
As you can see 0/43 AV products marked this VSTi as an infected file.
So either it's clean or these guys are among the best virus writers on the planet to evade AV detection like that.
Hope that helps my fellow music heads & props to Matrix Synth !!!"
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
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I don't know about this specific synth but false positive happens often.
ReplyDeletePlease read this as well : http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=286095&start=0
ReplyDeleteZoneAlarm False Positive.
ReplyDeleteThe main DLL file actually appears to be clean.
I checked it out myself.
(FYI - I used to write AV signatures & am a malware/security engineer by day).
Infected VSTi's are not new, this primarily affects "cracked" software and stuff you grab from P2P networks.
Though its always possible even for legit sites / apps to be compromised by bad guys so you do have to be somewhat cautious on the internet in general.
My advice to all is be suspicious of anything you download.
Especially when it comes from P2P, blogs or file share sites like RapidShare, MegaUpload, etc...
When in doubt, submit the file(s) to Virustotal for a scan against all the major AV vendors.
Go to www.virustotal.com and upload the files (unzip them first).
To see the results for this VSTi in question, go here:
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=d259ebad889ecedd3b7363fb86d7c0ed608133db8b0e5e0e811dd3b255d516a3-1294251889
As you can see 0/43 AV products marked this VSTi as an infected file.
So either it's clean or these guys are among the best virus writers on the planet to evade AV detection like that.
Hope that helps my fellow music heads & props to Matrix Synth !!!
My advice: Buy the software you use!
ReplyDeletegot this on the xenharmonic vsti; mostly didn't trust the download path...
ReplyDeleteafter checking with the dev, I'm using it & having fun, bypassed zonealarm.
zonealarms support seemed somewhat aware of the issues and promised they were working on it. relatively clueless tech when it came to a step by step to allow the vst to function with the za software.