FalseAlert Using Produkey 32 bit?

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I was trying to use Produkey 32 bit, but when I extract the files AVG warns of a PUP called “HackTool”
Naturally this was a huge red flag, especially with a name like that!!
I sent a message to the Nirsoft site asking whether this file is legit.
They responded that this is a common problem with virus blockers; some files show up as viruses, trojans, whatever, but they really aren’t malicious.

Anyone had a similar issue with Produkey?

rstew

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From: http://www.nirsoft.net/faq.html

Q: The antivirus software on my computer reports that some of the your utilities are infected with a virus or trojan. What should I do ?

A: First of all, All the utilities in my Web site are clean, and they don’t contain any virus or trojan. Unfortunately, Antivirus programs are not perfect, and in many times they detects innocent software as infected with trojan or virus. This problem is known as ‘False Positive’ or ‘False Alert’, and it’s quite common in password-recovery tools. If your antivirus software reports that utilities you downloaded from this Web site are infected with a virus or trojan, I highly recommend you to contact your antivirus company and ask them to fix this ‘False Positive’ problem in the next update of your antivirus software. You can also contact NirSoft to report about ‘False Positive’ problems. Click here to view the latest ‘False Positive’ problems reported by users from around the world.

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It’s a potential ‘hack tool’, ie. someone could use it on a computer to find the product key without your knowledge. Possibly flagged because a hacker once used, or suggested using, it.

It’s clean and perfectly legal for your own use.

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OK thanks for all the feedback.
I will give it a try and hopefully recover the product keys.

rstew

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Belarc will sniff almost all product keys. There used to be a password cracker named CainAndAbel, however, Cain wasn’t able, and Abel couldn’t raise cain.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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…Cain wasn’t able, and Abel couldn’t raise cain…

“…Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.” (Gen.4:8 KJV)

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I think the antivirus manufacturers had to take special note of Mark Russinovich’s / Sysinternals’ utilities like PSEXEC, to make sure they were not flagged as viruses, because, yes, some of them could be used by as ‘hack tools’! As is the case for almost any system utility…

They don’t seem to do this for Nir Sofer’s highly-useful utilities.

BATcher

Plethora means a lot to me.

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Pretty sure Russinovich had a second utility flagged at some point as well.

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They don’t seem to do this for Nir Sofer’s highly-useful utilities.

Nirsoft has a web page dedicated to the problem: http://nirsoft.net/false_positive_report.html

Jerry

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Nirsoft has a web page dedicated to the problem: http://nirsoft.net/false_positive_report.html

He gave up on this page over six years ago, since the AV manufacturers are laws unto themselves.

BATcher

Plethora means a lot to me.

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He gave up on this page over six years ago, since the AV manufacturers are laws unto themselves.

The only way to sidestep AV/Mal-SpyWare laws is to add URLs, folders, and processes to the respective Exclusion blocks.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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The page is not current but is an acknowledgement of the problem.

Jerry

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