.. between ‘try to disinfect without restart’

and ‘disinfect and restart’ .

has anyone else encountered this yet ?

yeh, just got the german version of the warning-dialogue
and Ky went so far as to delete the download and all, so I´m downing it
for the third time right now… (thats why I´m bored enough to write this ) .

My guess would be that it´s the ‘submit-usage-statistics’-thing (which I enabled).
I remember having the same issue a year or two ago, but with the free avira.

Well, disabling statistics in the prefs (or the splash-dialogue) may help,
gonna try it later.

Cheers!

It worked out (somehow, after silencing Kaspersky for a brief time).
First installed H14, disabled the stats, uninstalled it, installed again.

With the ‘send-anonymous-usage-statistics’ disabled (prefs->micellaneous)
there was no trojan-alarm, but I had to OK all the porcesses, even after
installation, mantra.exe and everything raised prompts from Ky, so
maybe there had been changes with some signature or certificate or
something, I´m not into this, ask the specialists on that .

Greez!

oh, and I forgot:
perhaps most helpful was to get Kaspersky to
prompt me instead of rambo-ing ahead (it was configured to
automatically handle things as I found out on this)!!

Hhrrmm.. , oh man, after installing H14 and everything working I switched Kaspersky to automatic again and what do you think- just a few minutes ago
(Houdini was not even running) it went berserk again and desinfected
iconv.ptf or something, telling that it´s malware (GameThiefwhatnot),
just like before.

I have no clue, I consider dumping Kaspersky, it´s very annoying I must say,
but for now I´ll switch off automatic again (that worked if I´m not totally
mistaken).

If really there is malware in H14 it would have been known before now, huh?!
Guess Kaspersky is an Allergic.

https://www.virustotal.com/ [virustotal.com]

No need for that, I think. Kaspersky is just going crazy right now.

It even disinfected and deleted a 13.621 build that I had lingering on an USB-stick and tried to install a few hours ago just to see
where the problem might be.

So it couldn´t possibly be Houdini, for I had this build already running on my previous machine without any problems and with the same setup (e.g. Kaspersky). Plus there would be dozens of other concerned users with
popup-warnings on their screens… .

Disabling automatic in Kaspersky lets you install H14 in any case,
if the evil ‘iconv.dll’ appears again, I´ll give it the treatment of
Your link .

thanks+

Any news on the issue? I've run into this, too. Took some time to figure out what was going on. Would be nice to save some time with some experienced advice and workaround.

Submit the file into virus total to double-check that it's a false positive, and then whitelist it.

hi edward,

sorry, can´t get hold of the file,
I find Kaspersky rather awful to handle in this respect.

Plus I have it running on desktop and notebook and it only
gives alarm on one machine while not finding anything on the other one
(same file).

Weirdness!
Somebody else whitelist this,
I´m dumping Kaspersky.

Hi edward,

finally got hold of it (iconv.dll) and put it on virustotal (whitelisted it too, I guess -klicked the ‘green devil’ at least-).

Thanks again for the advice

cheers!

I just had a similar problem. Downloaded H14.0.258 for the first time and as soon as I tried to install it was deleted by Kaspersky due to : Trojan-GameThief.Win32.Agent.ptf

I never had this problem with any previous version of Houdini (13, 12, 11) or any other program really.

I am trying to download the daily build and see if I have any better luck.

Hi there!

Following edwards advice
(e.g. uploading the file to https://www.virustotal.com [virustotal.com] )
helped in my case,
but Houdini has to be installed first in order to get the ‘iconv.dll’
which Kaspersky is complaining about on your desktop or somewhere
to upload it.
I tried to get it out of the installer, which of course didn´t work,
and wrongly blamed Kaspersky for not working .
What I finally did was disabling Kaspersky, installing Houdini, re-enabling
Kaspersky and grab the ‘iconv.dll’ and upload it to virustotal.
Proved to be quite harmless, Kaspersky´s scanner on virustotal didn´t find
anything malicious and up til now it hasn´t complained again.
Hope that´s productive

greets!