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<blockquote data-quote="LabZero" data-source="post: 473406"><p>Thanks ilda15 for the explanation, but, quoting the <a href="http://blog.nirsoft.net/2009/05/17/antivirus-companies-cause-a-big-headache-to-small-developers/" target="_blank">article</a> by Nir Sofer about this topic, I would like to make some observations.</p><p></p><p>Nir Sofer said that some antivirus classify absolutely legitimate software as infected and, about password recovery tools that people use to recover their lost passwords, it is true that these tool for passwords, like so many other utilities can be used by criminals, who have bad intentions, but the behavior of many antivirus it is rather selective: a tool that can be used by criminals is classified as malware, although almost all of its users using them with good intentions.</p><p>But Nirsoft does not distribute malicious code from his web site and the tools do not contain malicious code: the evil one is done on a presumption of dangerousness and not on the actual use of the malicious code.</p><p>Some antimalware vendors (such as Zemana) are more sensitive in the consideration of this issue and classify these tools as "hack tools", which is much better than classify them categorically as viruses or trojans, but prevents the user from using them, by simply removing or quarantining because many (average/basic) users do not know the difference between viruses, PUP, riskware, hack tool and when they receive such messages as "dangerous objects detected" , they continue to think that these tools are infected and don't use them.</p><p></p><p>For this reason I still think that Nirsoft tools are false positive: a legitimate tool is recognized "positive" to antimalware test, although in reality it is a legitimate software that does not contain sort of malicious code.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LabZero, post: 473406"] Thanks ilda15 for the explanation, but, quoting the [URL='http://blog.nirsoft.net/2009/05/17/antivirus-companies-cause-a-big-headache-to-small-developers/']article[/URL] by Nir Sofer about this topic, I would like to make some observations. Nir Sofer said that some antivirus classify absolutely legitimate software as infected and, about password recovery tools that people use to recover their lost passwords, it is true that these tool for passwords, like so many other utilities can be used by criminals, who have bad intentions, but the behavior of many antivirus it is rather selective: a tool that can be used by criminals is classified as malware, although almost all of its users using them with good intentions. But Nirsoft does not distribute malicious code from his web site and the tools do not contain malicious code: the evil one is done on a presumption of dangerousness and not on the actual use of the malicious code. Some antimalware vendors (such as Zemana) are more sensitive in the consideration of this issue and classify these tools as "hack tools", which is much better than classify them categorically as viruses or trojans, but prevents the user from using them, by simply removing or quarantining because many (average/basic) users do not know the difference between viruses, PUP, riskware, hack tool and when they receive such messages as "dangerous objects detected" , they continue to think that these tools are infected and don't use them. For this reason I still think that Nirsoft tools are false positive: a legitimate tool is recognized "positive" to antimalware test, although in reality it is a legitimate software that does not contain sort of malicious code. [/QUOTE]
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