Malwarebytes: RiskWare.Tool.CK

Discussion in 'Application Software' started by Holden von Vloppen, Jul 18, 2011.

  1. Holden von Vloppen

    Holden von Vloppen MDL Junior Member

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    I ran the KMS Activator to activate MS Office 2010. However, a Malwarebytes scan has flagged the install as such:
    The KMS Activator runs great. MS Office runs without a hitch. I'm thinking this is either a mistakenly false flag or the developers of Malwarebytes are just in kahoots with Microsoft and are deliberately false flagging the KMS activator as malware.

    Am I right?
     
  2. x86

    x86 MDL Addicted

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    They probably are :D

    I recently got PUM.Hijack.StartMenu - which after some research - I found that it was triggered because I simply changed some shortcuts on the Start Menu :rolleyes:

    Still, AntiMalware is a great tool though. False positives will always exist, so we just have to learn and live with them o_O
     
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  3. jpl327

    jpl327 MDL Novice

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    I had PC Matic flag the KMS Emulator as the trojan meredrop. Knowing full well that this was a false positive I white listed and proceeded with my clean up. PC Matic still counted it as malware and removed it from my system. My question is can I just run the ez activator again to reinstall the KMS Emulator as a service or is it more complicated than that?
     
  4. Holden von Vloppen

    Holden von Vloppen MDL Junior Member

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    You should be able to. After MBam uninstalled KMS, I just reinstalled it and it's working fine.
     
  5. Josh Cell

    Josh Cell MDL Developer

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    This is emulates KMS Services for activation;

    Only false-positive...
     
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  6. jpl327

    jpl327 MDL Novice

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    #7 jpl327, Jul 24, 2011
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    I did get it working. From Cody's E-Z activator I uninstalled the Office 2010 Auto KMS and then reinstalled it. I'm back up to perpetual 180 days remaining grace status. I did figure out also that even though the option to white list the "threat" exits in PC Matic it disregards this instruction and will uninstall it every time. I can't figure out a tactful way to address the issue with them so for now I'll just let it go.