malware found during installation

[Thomas_Kochmann]

I have just recently upgraded to Intel C++ Studio for windows, and downloaded the file for 64/32 bit.

During installation, my Anti Vir virus scan detected several malwares.

One of them was "HTML/Malicious.ActiveX.Gen". What can I do now. I don't want to use

the system with this trojan(s).

Have you already some experiences with viruses? Or is there another place to download?

[Thomas_Kochmann]

Good to know that vtss.sys is not really necessary.

Fine, Thanks.

[Thomas_Kochmann]

Hallo Hubert,

just to give some further information about this matter, e.g. for every user

trying to circumvent this problem by using the 64-bit-only version of Intel C++ Studio.

I've just tried to install the Intel C++ Studio only-64-bit-version on another machine. Unfortunately,

the same problem arises. First, I was rather astonished. But then, the reason appeared to be simple: The VTune in the 64-bit-Intel C++ studio has also a 32 bit version, becauseit is the same VTune package, and VTune doesn't seem to be divided into a 32-bit- and 64-bit-only version.

Of course, inactivating that 32-bit vtss.sys also solves this problem. But it's not worth installing the 64-bit-only version of the whole studio.

[Hubert_H_Intel]

Thomas,
Thanks for the hint!
Hubert.

[Alexander_W_Intel]

Hi Thomas,

I hope I can bring some new insights in this issue. This is definitely a false positive from Avira. I checked the file with a tool against the 42 most used antivirus engines and only Antivira reported an issue with this file.

The issue reported by Antivira itself is a generic one (they are often marked by .Gen, like in this case). That means Antivira detected a pattern inside the file which looks similar to patterns which can also be used as part of a virus. Virus scanners try often to detect also unknown viruses with these kinds of heuristics. In this case this gives a false positive.

If you have any further questions, be will be glad to answer them for you.

Alex
Intel Developer Support