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Serious malware infection from Camstudio installer
Today I received a detailed malware report associated with the "adware" which accompanied the new Camstudio installer.
I've never been a fan of these adware packages, mainly because the people who run them depend for their livelihood on deception, and that makes them inherently untrustworthy. Anyone who relies on dishonesty to make a sale can never be trusted to tell the truth.
However when the software in question triggers not only my antivirus software, but also alarms from our security gateway, that's far beyond adware.
There's no question about the cause of this alert, I've got detailed logs, and it's 100% certain that the Camstudio installer installed malware on one of my computers.
I'm deeply disturbed and disappointed that it's come to this. This can only damage the reputation of this project and everyone involved.
I've never been a fan of these adware packages, mainly because the people who run them depend for their livelihood on deception, and that makes them inherently untrustworthy. Anyone who relies on dishonesty to make a sale can never be trusted to tell the truth.
However when the software in question triggers not only my antivirus software, but also alarms from our security gateway, that's far beyond adware.
There's no question about the cause of this alert, I've got detailed logs, and it's 100% certain that the Camstudio installer installed malware on one of my computers.
I'm deeply disturbed and disappointed that it's come to this. This can only damage the reputation of this project and everyone involved.
Comments
This installer is now being used by many at Sourceforge as well. I seriously doubt these malware reports are anything other than false positives from heuristics(-leaning pattern matching software that makes a "guess" but does not match actual known virus and malware patterns - most "generic" and "PUP" finds are of this kind...)
However, we WERE attacked and taken over once recently, so I'm always VERY VERY interested to hear any reports at all.
Terry
The installer itself, being an advert-based installer, is marked by AVG as a malware (not a virus, though...). You can get the previous version of CamStudio (which in my opinion is better than the current) at Sourceforge not having that advert-based installer.
2.7.3 r316 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/files/stable/CamStudio_2.7_r316_setup.exe/download
Needs 2010 Microsoft C++ runtime libraries http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328
2.0 (original - needs 2008 Microsoft C++ runtime libraries) http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/files/legacy/Camstudio2-0.exe/download
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5582
Terry