Wyzo

Comodo Internet Security - CIS AV False Positive/Negative Detection Reporting
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Anybody know why is Wyzo marked as malicious?

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Wyzo Media Browser is what you mean?

I will move this to the fp board.

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Exactly and tnks. Many people say it’s malicious. Also the WOT rating says that, but why? any ideas?

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Hi Anathaen,

Can you please tell us full detection name ?

Thanks,
Ionel

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Hi Anathaen,

Not many ideas :), but some additional info:

McAfee site advisor :

Varying levels of risk throughout – please use this site with caution.

On WOT page see comments about hpHosts (page #2)
Engaged in the distribution of malware.
and indeed hpHosts project just blocking the site (if you check current file) – you may ask their forum why?

So basically, for some reason the site is indeed considered by some as “not very trusted” ???

Cheers!

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The program doesn’t seem very suspicious.

Here’s the report from virustotal:
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/71e72895bc46007c5b92d4ce59d667ab0ffce857e58dde9875b3af2ba0d05edf-1270651269

and the one from CIMA:
http://camas.comodo.com/cgi-bin/submit?file=71e72895bc46007c5b92d4ce59d667ab0ffce857e58dde9875b3af2ba0d05edf

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I have no exact info, just what I’ve read from various comments, people using COMODO saying their AV detected something suspicious or a suspicious behaviour in Wyzo.

Also today, I ran Wyzo on my secondary account on my PC with limited rights and got several errors when setting up Wyzo with homepage of Google and after that I got a strange error and I was directed to their fan site on Facebook?

Also, what I’ve noticed with Wyzo is enormous CPU consumption overall, and with Skype my PC almost totally froze.

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Now I can confirm that Wyzo indeed is malicious. On recommendation of my service technician I was told to try and uninstall the app and to see if my PC runs better. Also, the cooler I thought was not working is, it was only Wyzo causing problems, or possibly a virus spread through Wyzo. When I had the browser opened I had problems with Skype also, my computer kept freezing and this did not happen before.

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As it was pointed above - the best way to find out why the site is considered dangerous
is to ask hpHosts forum.
The Softaware itself may not be malicious as a matter of fact so the advice / unistalling ad “better running PC” may be just coincidental

My regards