I have a program called Teraterm that have some little applications like keycode.exe which it is supposed to configure the keyboard to my liking but Microsoft Security Essentials detect it as a Trojan.
It's really a Trojan or not?
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Likewise, I witnessed Windows Defender report a trojan in TeraTerm 4.91 available here. I believe that download of TeraTerm is safe and that the trojan detected was a false positive based on the following:
- This site has scanned it using many anti virus packages and deemed it safe.
- There is a bug filed that shows a known false positive when using Windows Defender (which replaces Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 8 and greater).
- I just scanned the file using Kaspersky Anti-Virus, and it declared it contains no viruses.
It looks like Windows Defender (and likely Microsoft Security Essentials as well) doesn’t show a virus with version 4.90, if you would like to use that instead.
5Tera Term (tera-term.exe or Tera Term Pro.exe) is a exe file associated with guide to hacking software security 2002 by Silver Star Publishing. It can be classified as a potentially unwanted program that utilizes the install Core download manager bundled with additional offers for various ad-supported extensions, toolbars and utilities. Here is a heardProtect online-scan report of TeraTerm.exe:
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