TextCrawler marked as PUA:Win32/CandyOpen

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wardian
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TextCrawler marked as PUA:Win32/CandyOpen

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Hello
This morning I arrived at work to find our licensed version of TextCrawler had been marked as PUA:Win32/CandyOpen by Microsoft System Essentials.
All installations have been removed (2).

https://www.reasoncoresecurity.com/text ... 7bdb4.aspx
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DigitalVolcano
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Re: TextCrawler marked as PUA:Win32/CandyOpen

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It's probably a false positive - this happens sometimes. I've double checked on VirusTotal with the major AV engines and it seems OK.

Be sure to update your virus definitions and software. TextCrawler 2 and 3 don't use any bundling/PUA.
TLDG
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Re: TextCrawler marked as PUA:Win32/CandyOpen

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Could a false positive have come about due to some of your installers including OpenCandy in the past?

If so, could you please confirm - which were the last version numbers of TC and DC to bundle it?

Many thanks.
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Re: TextCrawler marked as PUA:Win32/CandyOpen

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Duplicate Cleaner (Free version only) displayed the OpenCandy offer a long time ago - 2013 at the latest, version 3.2.1

I can't recall if TextCrawler Free ever did - if so it would be an old version - 2.4 or earlier.
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