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by: Harv November 7, 2007 2:39 PM PST

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Found this after Spybot S&D scan

by Harv - 11/7/07 2:39 PM

eSupport.FFBiosExt: [SBI $A25032E7] System file (File, nothing done)
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\TVicHW32.sys

eSupport.FFBiosExt: [SBI $105565D6] Data (File, nothing done)
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\TVICHW32.VXD

eSupport.FFBiosExt: [SBI $EF3E109E] System file (File, nothing done)
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\TVicHW64.sys

eSupport.FFBiosExt: [SBI $12D696B9] System file (File, nothing done)
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\TVICHW32.SYS

Are these viruses, trojans or other kind of malware?


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Harv, the same thing here

by glenn30 - 11/7/07 3:46 PM

In Reply to: Found this after Spybot S&D scan by Harv

I just left it alone waiting to see if it's a false positive. I suspect something is not right with the update.

Glenn


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Thanks glenn30.

by Harv - 11/7/07 4:02 PM

In Reply to: Harv, the same thing here by glenn30

I was worried because my pc is usually superclean. Good to know that I'm not the only person with this file in his pc.


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eSupport.FFBiosExt to be corrected ..

by Carol~ Moderator - 11/8/07 5:25 PM

In Reply to: Found this after Spybot S&D scan by Harv

Harv..

As Glenn has already suspected, there is "something wrong"..

According to a Yodama of Team Spybot it will be corrected with the next update:

"eSupport.FFBiosExt
is a Firefox extension that allows reading out the Bios information and helps finding an update.
Unfortunately it also installs the file and a service, because the vendor of this software did not supply an uninstall functionallity it has been labled as PUPS (Possibly Unpopular Software).

As it turns out the TVICHW32.SYS is also being used with other hardware analysis software, which may run, for instance with ATI software.

We will exclude detection on this file with the next detection update.

http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=134082&postcount=4

Carol


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Thanks

by acura4u2 - 11/10/07 10:44 AM

In Reply to: eSupport.FFBiosExt to be corrected .. by Carol~ Moderator

Good to know, especially after I downloaded latest definitions/detection update on 11/09 for SpyBot S&D; still get this false positive.


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That will probably be 11/14. Spybot normally

by roddy32 Moderator - 11/10/07 1:18 PM

In Reply to: Thanks by acura4u2

releases the defs updates on Wednesday mornings (US time). Just a heads up for you.


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Thank you!

by mileschap - 11/20/07 11:03 PM

In Reply to: eSupport.FFBiosExt to be corrected .. by Carol~ Moderator

Great news that those files discovered this evening are a false alarm -- I was quite concerned and would have wasted quite some time researching in Firefox.


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