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# Posted: 20 Jun 2008 14:44
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Hmmm... that's a FALSE POSITIVE, keep in mind what the program actually *does*:measuring time in hours minutes and seconds spent working for Clients or on Projects.
In other words it logs your computer activities which is EXACTLY what a lot of spyware/malware/trojans do. Inevitably some AV programs or very strict security settings will see that as spyware/trojan-like activity & throw up a warning.
Let's be clear about how Anti Virus/Anti Spyware programs work:
They search for program code that looks like code used by known & researched threats.
IF the code is positively identifiable with a known threat (think of it as a specific street address) it will name the threat exactly & you will be able to Google it & find lots of info.
If it only looks like known threats (think of it as a post/zip code)you will get a virus/trojan family name e.g "Winbackdpoor".
There's lots more info on the subject on "How Stuff Works".
Being the first person to find a brand new virus/trojan in a program that is listed on a freeware site by an author who has more than a dozen other programs listed on the site is about as likely as snow in summer ;-)
If you don't want to risk telling your AV program to ignore a program (if it will even let you ignore it!) be aware that, if what you want the program to do caused the alert, you're likely to have the same result with ANY or all programs that do the same thing!
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