Is CamStudio safe?

[MalwareFire]

Is CamStudio safe?

 

[starchild76]

the program itself is safe , the only downfall is , that the installer package is riddled with bundled with pups and adware! when you want to install it , be sure that you have unchecky installed. after an install run adwcleaner , to make sure nio adware or other junk is left.

 

[MalwareFire]

the program itself is safe , the only downfall is , that the installer package is riddled with bundled with pups and adware! when you want to install it , be sure that you have unchecky installed. after an install run adwcleaner , to make sure nio adware or other junk is left.

and FastStone Capture?

 

[starchild76]

faststone is a more respected company , you can go with that I think , or someone else on mt might have another opinion about that??

 

[Kent]

and FastStone Capture?

Yes it is safe!

 

[illumination]

Faststone is safe, it is a rather light, and powerful software.

 

[Kent]

Is CamStudio safe?

Eset and Mbam blocks it better avoid it

 

[RevolutionSphere]

Eset and Mbam blocks it better avoid it

Could just be a false positive. Eset and Mbam are flagging the junk that's with it.

 

[Manzai]

In Free software, I prefer HyperCam 2, no PUP

In paid, I love Camtasia Studio

 

[Purshu_Pro]

Eset and Mbam blocks it better avoid it

Its because it consists of PUP's and Adware as @starchild76 already stated it. Not a FP i believe.

 

[thepierrezou]

Camstudio is a verry good software is you use the CamStudio Lossless Codec

 

[Deleted member 21043]

Hi there mate,

Would you mind sending me a PM of the installer package/executable you have for Camstudio?
While Camstudio itself is safe and not malicious, the installer could be bundled with Potentially Unwanted Programs.

As well as that, are you downloading the installer directly from the Official Camstudio website? Downloading elsewhere may result in a infected package, more PUPs and so on.

Thank you.

 

[jackuars]

Try Active Presenter Free if you want to do screencasts, it has advanced editing capabilities.

 

[jackuars]

Quihoo 360 found a trojan(adware) in Camstudio and quarantined when downloading from official website, strangely it's just 600KB and a zip file.

While Softpedia gives a clean certificate: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Recording/Camstudio.shtml
The installer there is a .exe file and size is 11MB and free of virus.

Now this seems strange.

 

[RevolutionSphere]

Quihoo 360 found a trojan(adware) in Camstudio and quarantined when downloading from official website, strangely it's just 600KB and a zip file.

While Softpedia gives a clean certificate: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Recording/Camstudio.shtml
The installer there is a .exe file and size is 11MB and free of virus.

Now this seems strange.

The program itself is safe but its bundled with a lot of junk.

 

[Kent]

Quihoo 360 found a trojan(adware) in Camstudio and quarantined when downloading from official website, strangely it's just 600KB and a zip file.

While Softpedia gives a clean certificate: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Recording/Camstudio.shtml
The installer there is a .exe file and size is 11MB and free of virus.

Now this seems strange.

Have you run the exe file that you downloaded from softpedia? It looks strange that downloading the file from the original site is just few KBs and softpedia has it in 10~11 MB .Looks like softpedia has the offline installer and the original site hosts web installer.......

 

[MalwareT]

I'm using Camtasia Studio 7 (paid) and FasStone Capture (paid, low price) and i'm very satisfied,video recorded with FastStone 40Min=55MB If you set quality to high, everything is good.

 

[jackuars]

Have you run the exe file that you downloaded from softpedia? It looks strange that downloading the file from the original site is just few KBs and softpedia has it in 10~11 MB .Looks like softpedia has the offline installer and the original site hosts web installer.......

The version at Softpedia is 2.7.2 r326 and is a 11MB installer and is clean.
The version at SourceForge is 2.7 r316 and is a 3MB installer and is clean.
The version at official website is 2.7.2 and is a 600KB zip file with a lot of adware.