Fake false positive from McAfee site advisor

Posted by Cristiano on November 8th, 2008 | 0 Comments

According to the latest version of McAfee SiteAdvisor, we are hosting viruses in our site, specifically, at apup.zip file. The issue is related to a false positive presented by McAfee and several other antivirus vendors for uz.exe. Uz.exe never was a virus, or a trojan, or a worm. That file was just a tool designed to extract zip files, nothing else. We managed to gain confirmation from F-Secure and from Kaspersky that our files was virus-free. But McAfee don't think that and 2 months AFTER we removed the file pointed by them they put us in the exact same level as a malicious site.

It seems there are good web sites, there are bad web sites and there are those that are just plain incompetent. In the incompetent category comes McAfee SiteAdvisor. Even McAfee's process for verifying a web site owner is broken.

Blaming others for false positives is easy, McAfee. We hope that you update your own software some day (like we did 2 months ago, to remove the file that you "think" was a virus) and remove that false positive that you set for us. It's very easy to test: just try checking our entire site again, just to be sure that your false positive isn't here anymore.

To anyone that wishes see McAfee false positive, it's in here.

Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you, McAfee

Comments removed

Posted by Cristiano on October 21st, 2008 | 0 Comments

All comments posted was removed due misguided use of support requests, blames, bad words usage, injuries about certain companies, etc. For comments about our releases, ask for support or say wherever you have to say about us, please, go to the foruns.

Thanks

AutoPatcher FAQ updated

Posted by Cristiano on September 25th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Looking for solutions to common issues regarding AutoPatcher.exe?

Try check our F.A.Q. It may help you a bit :)

APUP Updated to v1.05

Posted by Erik Ramey on September 9th, 2008 | 0 Comments

A new version of the AutoPatcher updater was just released:

Most if not all changes are behind the scenes in this releases which include:

  • A revamped log file
  • Support for 7z decompression
  • Debugging routines that shouldn't return in error "0" codes

If you are running an older verions of the updater, you will be prompted to download the newest version automatically. As always if you have any difficulties or run into any errors, let us know in the forums.

You can find a complete change log for this release here

Windows Vista Separated/Server 2008 Compatibility

Posted by Erik Ramey on June 20th, 2008 | 0 Comments

In order to offer more choices and a smaller download, the Vista SP1 release was separated into two releases: X86 and X64 packs. Additionally since Vista SP1 shares the same core as Server 2008, compatibility for Server 2008 has been added to both the X86 and X64 releases.

Note: Downloading the X86 release will not remove X64 releases and vice-versa. In order to remove any un-wanted updates, you will need to delete the module folder and re-download all releases.