Anti-Virus Flagging Adware OpinionSpy as a Trojan

JimFrost

Just a heads up but it looks like Intego had never seen adware on a MAC and was quick to call this a trojan and a backdoor - there are references all over the internet blasting them for getting this wrong and claiming a billion dollar publicly traded company is putting backdoors on systems. You might want to pull the post, just an fyi.

A few quick credible references about it being adware:

Reference: http://www.computersecurity.org/computer-cyber-security-news/analysis-securestudies-com-ossproxy-marketscore-opinionspy-adwarepupriskware-or-malware/

Reference: http://doc.emergingthreats.net/bin/view/Main/2001564

References: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/726b325e1b3ea2cfbb1f57ece7a60734151b07874869b6ac6ac7ae5f23507295/analysis/

[Deleted User]

Hi JimFrost,

 

I had a quick check with our lab team and we currently don't detect this. However, if you do have a sample of the file, please submit it to our labs for analysis.