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Thread: MSI drivers misindentified as trojan

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    Default MSI drivers misindentified as trojan

    Hello, I have Windows XP SP3 with an NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT based MSI video card. MSI includes some extra programs (compared to a bare NVidia driver package). In this case, it's
    ..\system32\winsys2.exe
    that's related to MSI overclocking for the video card, but after updating Spybot's detection files, a manual scan shows:

    06.09.2009 00:26:17 - ##### check started #####
    06.09.2009 00:26:17 - ### Version: 1.6.2
    06.09.2009 00:26:17 - ### Date: 06-09-2009 0:26:17
    06.09.2009 00:26:19 - ##### checking bots #####
    06.09.2009 00:26:45 - ##### check started #####
    06.09.2009 00:26:45 - ### Version: 1.6.2
    06.09.2009 00:26:45 - ### Date: 06-09-2009 0:26:45
    06.09.2009 00:26:47 - ##### checking bots #####
    06.09.2009 00:40:19 - found: Win32.Agent.ws Autorun settings (WinSys2)
    06.09.2009 00:40:19 - found: Win32.Agent.ws Program file
    06.09.2009 00:41:14 - ##### check finished #####

    There's indeed a trojan that goes by the same name, but Spybot is the only one that panics. Neither Outpost's scanner nor PrevX nor AdAware flag the file as suspicious.

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