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David -------------------------------------------------- From: "Aryeh Goretsky (home)" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:12 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Trojan threat detected when installing Rescue &Recovery Hello, Although nomenclature varies from vendor-to-vendor, the use of the string "Agent" in the name of the reported threat indicates this could be a machine-developed signature, as opposed to one created by a human virus analyst. As such, I'd be inclined to go with the diagnosis of a false positive alarm, however, it is always a good idea to get a second opinion. In this case, I would recommend contacting AVG's technical support and try to confirm the issue. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 10:00 AM 7/12/2012, you wrote: >Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:47:11 -0500 >From: Rob Bell <[email protected]> >Subject: [Thinkpad] Trojan threat detected when installing Rescue & > Recovery >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >I am performing a fresh install of Win7 on a T61p (couldn't figure out >how to run the recovery partition). I downloaded the 'Thinkpad Rescue >and Recovery' installer (tvtvrnr43_1027fi.exe) from Lenovo's download >site and began installing it. AVG detected the following as a threat: > >File: C:\preboot\utils\rnrdbgtool.exe >Threat: Trojan horse Agent_r.BKV > >Since I know this package came direct from Lenovo and since R&R is >likely doing things that LOOK like a trojan, I have to believe AVG is >throwing a false positive here. But before I proceed I wanted to ask >anyone else if they have encountered this before? > >Thanks, >Rob _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
