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Old 10-29-2012, 05:49 PM   #1
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Calibre virus?
I've had a lot of trouble installing the latest (0.9.4.1) version of Calibre:
1. AVG says it's infected.
2. It needs UAC disabled to install properly
3. It wants a restart after installation

All three symptoms look very suspicious to me. Anybody experience this?

Also, is there a way to revert to an earlier version of Calibre? I don't trust 0.9.4.1

TIA
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Old 10-29-2012, 06:24 PM   #2
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Where did you get 0.9.4.1? The latest version i see is 0.9.4 [26 Oct, 2012].

http://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
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Old 10-29-2012, 06:30 PM   #3
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I would suggest that as long as you got Calibre from the official download site that #2 and #3 are normal and #1 is an AVG false alert. Lots of people use Calibre. If there were really a virus many people would have reported it right away.
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Old 10-29-2012, 06:41 PM   #4
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I've never had the need to disable UAC OR to restart after installing.
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Old 10-29-2012, 06:44 PM   #5
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Where did you get 0.9.4.1? The latest version i see is 0.9.4 [26 Oct, 2012].

http://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
and not a hint of troubles from it.
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Old 10-29-2012, 06:59 PM   #6
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I just found a German website offering downloads of calibre, and I do NOT recommend that anyone here copy and paste this link.

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http://calibre.updatestar.com/en/edit/0.8.43/d81176c212
Norton has red-flagged the site as containing a virus ("Trojan.ADH.2").

This is NOT calibre's website. calibre's main page is http://calibre-ebook.com/ and their download page is http://calibre-ebook.com/download.
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Old 10-29-2012, 07:00 PM   #7
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I use AVG and installed 9.4 on a few systems. Not a wimper.

9.4.1 sounds like a social engineering (malware) job to me
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Old 10-29-2012, 09:10 PM   #8
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...9.4.1 sounds like a social engineering (malware) job to me
That's what it sounds like to me, especially since the calibre web page says that 0.9.4 is the latest version. I sent Kovid a heads-up PM about this thread.
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Old 10-29-2012, 10:33 PM   #9
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Here's the FAQ entry about it:

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....a-virus-trojan
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