So the latest version of fully updated Malwarebytes has labeled the .exe's (installers) for the Digital Vault Gen 16 Zildjian pack and the 2011 BFD Eco X-Mas freebie as threats. There are four entries, two from my desktop and two in my downloads folder. This kind of makes sense because I always copy downloads from the containing folder and put them on my desktop but also kind of DON'T make sense because a) I just ran CCleaner which should have cleared my download folder and b) I have the actual DVDs for the Zildjian pack and don't recall downloading anything (but maybe it's an update I have since forgotten I installed).
 
So my questions are:
 
Have any other BFD Eco users had this happen?
 
Are these false positives?
 
Should I just leave them alone?
 
Thanks.

Gah. Google has become useless for searching stuff like this. Used to be you could plug in search terms for malware results and find info. Now it's just a bunch of garbledy gook sites and other unrelated crap. Lame.

Perhaps they are not downloaded a lot like some things are and it is just seeing that and being coutious. I get warnings from Norton sometimes when I download an audio program that isn't widely downloaded... maybe?
 
J

Hi, jbow. That's what I'm thinking. Just curious to see if any of you guys who use Eco have gotten the same thing. I do find it odd that it didn't detect any of the other BFD exe and stuff on the system though. The X-Mas thing came straight from the FXpansion site through my account. I don't think I've even installed it. Perhaps it's good that I haven't.
 

I'm gonna just let Malwarebytes "fix" them. They're just installer files anyway so I can always get at them again if I need to. Still curious to know whether anyone else has seen this and I guess seeing as how google search isn't coming up with anything at least now it's documented. Cheers.

Sorry for multiple posts but I figure some folks may be interested. After doing the CCleaner registry scan/fix and running the main cleaner and doing this Malwarebytes scan/fix I can open X2 with absolutely no lag or whitescreen. I'm assuming this has more to do with the CCleaner stuff (it got rid of a LOT of junk that I have no idea where it came from). I've always had to wait a few seconds while opening X2 and inevitably got another few seconds of whitescreen as well as lag when opening projects and sometimes a brief whitescreen. Just now I opened the same project I've been messing with for a while in X2 a) opened immediately without any glitchiness and b) the project just sprung to life and was ready to playback before I even had a chance to click Play.
 
Maybe freaking audiosnap will work better now too. Sweet.

I'd be carefully with registry fixers. They can easily cause programs not to work correctly. As long as you aren't installing crap off the Internet all the time there really is no need to fix the registry IMO.

I hear ya but CCleaner isn't really one of the nasty ones unless you set it up to be. I may have borked up something considering how much it yanked off the system but Sonar seems to be working fine and I have restore points and an image from not too long ago and CCleaner made restore points too before the doing the clean. I also want to totally wipe the system and start from scratch or use the original image I made right after I had built the system and configured windows but before I started installing my audio programs. I need to set my directories up properly and want to call Cakewalk to get some more definitive optimization tweaks as well as do the set up with all the knowledge I've acquired in the past year.
 
It will be much better methinks and perhaps solve some of the the little glitches I run into. At the very least the file structure won't be as ridiculous and it'll clear out any junk I know I don't want to deal with on the system.
 
Cheers.

Oh and just installing, uninstalling programs, moving and deleting files, etc can do weird stuff that CCleaner fixes. There were a ton of broken dlls that got removed so it did something... not to mention I do use it to download the stuff I buy instead of dling on another machine and transferring over which is kind of a hassle for such large programs and libraries.
 

The most important thing about running a registry cleaner is to always back up the registry before you do it, and I believe CCleaner gives you the option to do this. To be honest I don't think registry cleans make much of difference to your system. They don't "fix" corrupt or missing or erroneous registry entries, they just clear out stuff that's being unused. And in a registry that contains 100's of 1000's of keys, deleting a couple of hundred of them isn't going to yield any performance gains. Same thing with registry "defraggers" which get advertised a lot - the entire registry is loaded into memory at startup so defragging it will only, if anything, affect boot times. 
 
Having said that, none of this stops me from running the cleaner now and then during idle moments