Randall_Oelerich
Veteran
I just updated my Contour software to 1.2 of Mariner's website. Be careful if you do that-- Norton caught a dangerous trojan worm embedded in their uninstall.exe file, a worm that captures keystrokes (like credit card numbers and passwords?) and sends that info to a server. Norton quarantined the worm to a compost pile. I just emailed Mariner to ask about this, see if they have an explanation.
This is the worm info:
http://virusremoval.info/Remove/worm/worm.aspx?worm=Trojan.ADH
EDIT:
I uploaded the Mariner Contour software uninstall.exe (suspicious file) to virustotal.exe for a scan, and 19 of 42 (45%) different antivirus antispyware programs flagged it as malware. Mariner thinks the uninstall.exe is falsely being labeled as malware, you decide. Since it is not really needed to run their software, only to remove it, I am opting to delete it and not have it on my system. At least one other user reported on Mariner's forum how their system seemed to slow down significantly as a result of this. I like Contour, have it, just upgraded to 1.2, just do not trust the uninstall.exe which actually seems to be more to do with WinRAR for the install/uninstall, nothing really to do specifically with the actual Contour software.
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan...14402f0987db6b7796b7b2ed1eeb190f3c-1308247442
This is the worm info:
http://virusremoval.info/Remove/worm/worm.aspx?worm=Trojan.ADH
EDIT:
I uploaded the Mariner Contour software uninstall.exe (suspicious file) to virustotal.exe for a scan, and 19 of 42 (45%) different antivirus antispyware programs flagged it as malware. Mariner thinks the uninstall.exe is falsely being labeled as malware, you decide. Since it is not really needed to run their software, only to remove it, I am opting to delete it and not have it on my system. At least one other user reported on Mariner's forum how their system seemed to slow down significantly as a result of this. I like Contour, have it, just upgraded to 1.2, just do not trust the uninstall.exe which actually seems to be more to do with WinRAR for the install/uninstall, nothing really to do specifically with the actual Contour software.
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan...14402f0987db6b7796b7b2ed1eeb190f3c-1308247442
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