Streamerp2p Forum

Hi,

I don't think this actually happened, or I think she's getting a false antivirus flag or something, but here's an email I got today:

"Jason,

I just wanted to let you know that there's a problem with your online streaming (listen live). I got a worm/virus today from it and it completely shut down my computer here at work. ITS had to come over and wipe out everything and I didn't get back to working for over 2 hours. I'm not the only one to have this problem either because a couple others on the Graffiti Wall have mentioned this too. "

Any thoughts or comments for this listener?

Thank you in advance...

Jason
http://www.q1520radio.com

Hightly unlikely.

The installer and activex are digitally signed, and cannot be tampered with or altered in any way without the user getting a big red warning from windows when they try and run it. This is what digital signing is for.

Can I see the actual allegedly infected file please?, and the name/id of the worm/virus that was found, and what virus scanner is flagging the alert.

A false positive has happened before with one virus checker, but a false positive doesn't shut down a pc.

Someone posted this note in reply to me asking a question about anyone else having similar problems (since the email said others did too):

"I saw mention of 3 people who mentioned a worm/virus. They were Mommax5, Imdeetoo, and Glassa. They all posted threads concerned about listen live through WQMA. From what I understand Norton caught it, for Momma...and the others sound like it effected their computers.

Thanks for looking out for us Jason "

The forum I'm getting this from is here:

http://www.steveanddc.com/wfapp/user?AC ... leID=12976

Thanks again for any ideas but I've passed along your belief that it's not too likely to be caused by the software... First time I've ever gotten a report like that, however. Those three are regular posters at that site so I don't believe it's some kind of prank. But I'm still hoping for a false positive, combined with a different computer problem maybe...

Still I wanted to report here in case...

Jason

After reading through the post this morning, I found one listener posted the exact warning message which was what I suspect when I first saw this topic...



This is in bug that has been in Streamer for many versions now but is we think fixed in the version about to be released. It occurs when Streamer erroroneously tries to send a packet from port 8466 to port 0 on another computer running Streamer. IT is NOT a virus or a hack attempt. It's a small bug which until recently was being very elusive for the developer.

Any other symptoms that might have happened when this warning popped up is pure coincidence. If Streamer is not installed manually with a download and run, activeX component is designed to install Streamer in the users TEMP folder. This is what gives the listener a click and listen experience.

If you use the click and run activeX on XP or I think Windows 2k, you will find ALL of the files for Streamer have been put into c:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Local Settings\Temp\streamer.

just as a reference, the other thread about the Port 0 problem is here : http://www.streamerp2p.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1783

Just to let you know that I got exactly the same problem when I installed streamer today.

Norton came on and said that I had a worm detected.

Luckily, I noticed this thread on the forum and my heart rate has now returned to normal !!

I added a big [SOLVED] in front of the Topic of the original posting. Looks much better and less scary


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