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Martin James Elliott, Technical Support Specialist, Sophos, emailed me, "an IDE file (catche-a.ide) to correct this false-positive report has now been released on the Databank and our web site. " After checking I have catche-a.ide I scanned both v3 and v4 Pro executables without finding a "virus ...

Karlis: Martin at Sophos replied to me asking for sample executables. I sent him links on my web site to executables for GIF Animator v3 and GIF Animator v4 Pro. I included an edited copy of your last email to him, asked him to talked to you directly, gave him your email address (from your email ...

Here's the email I just sent Sophos support - Martin: Actually it hasn't been fixed. I'm running v6.5.3 with threat detection engine 2.43.0 last updated Mar 13 at 5:51 am. As a work around I'd excluded the c:\Program Files\Easy GIF Animator from On-Access scanning. When I manually scan the directory ...

davidp wrote:I've just heard back from Sophos - they apologise for the problem and will release an update to correct it shortly:

They haven't released it yet. Sophos is still flagging it as soon as the installation completes.

chrisjlocke wrote: I can also forward the file onto Sophos to check.

Did you forward the file to Sophos?

I too suspect it is a false positive. I've not used Easy GIF Animator in some weeks so nothing's changed about it. But Sophos is updated multiple times a day. Sophos version 6.5.2 with Threat detection engine = 2.42.3 I sent you an email with a link to the executable (renamed to gifan.txt) and two ...

Sophos Anti-Virus is reporting, "Virus Mal/HcPk-A has been detected in 'c:\program files\Easy Gif Animatory\gifan.exe'"

I downloaded a current version and reinstalled and Sophos immediately threw up the same dialog.