RE: [Zoot XT] Malware Attached to a Zoot .exe File or False Positive?

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Tom Davis

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Sep 8, 2012, 6:39:47 PM9/8/12

to Cliffu

That would be a false positive.

Looking at your system report I'm wondering if you installed Zoot XT in the same folder as Zoot 5.0. Take a look and see if these two files reside in the same folder under Program Files:

Zoot32.exe
Zoot32XT.exe

If so, you should uninstall Zoot XT, then download the latest full installation and reinstall.

Tom Davis
Zoot Software
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From: Cliffu [cu19...@comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 04:12 PM
To: zoo...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [Zoot XT] Malware Attached to a Zoot .exe File or False Positive?

Tom, another thing, which may or may not have to do with my problem with not being able to load Zoot 5 files into Zoot 6.

I did an overnight scan of my computer using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (which you can download for free and even check individual files) and it found in my recent installation of Zoot 6 that the Zoot file of ZSysInfo.exe had malware called "Trojan.Zbot." Is this a false positive? Anyone else find this? Since this was found a few days after a brand new Zoot 6 installation, I wonder if it came from your site, somewhere else or is a false positive.

Cliff

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CU

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Sep 8, 2012, 7:25:44 PM9/8/12

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Tom, you were right - Zoot32.exe and Zoot32XT.exe were in the same folder. As you suggested, I uninstalled Zoot XT and reinstalled latest. When I went through the usual drill, I got the same error message AGAIN. However, I had an inspiration, and created a folder in the Zoot database folder which had the same name as the .zot file I was trying to turn into a Zoot XT file, and placed the zot file in that folder, then opened it, and voilla, it worked!! So my .zot file was called "Cliff," and so under Zoot Databases\Projects I created a folder names "Cliff," and put Cliff.zot in there, then clicked on it, which worked. Hurray! Thanks for your help!!