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On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:55:56 +0000, "David B." <"David B"@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 12/02/2019 01:11, mark_t@phffft.com wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:42:27 +0000, "David B." <"David B"@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/02/2019 16:07, mark_t@phffft.com wrote:
>>>> The genuine spawn.exe file is a software component of Acronis True
>>>> Image by Acronis.
>>>
>>> I'd agree with that. :-)
>>>
>>> However, it does say "The *GENUINE* spawn.exe file ..."
>>>
>>> If I were you, I'd bounce my query off SuperAntiSpyware themselves.
>>>
>>> YMMV
>> 
>> I have checked it many different ways, including with SAP.  As I
>> said, this Acronis file has been on all our comps since '05.  I use
>> Acronis quite often.  I usually make incremental backups a few times
>> a week.  Never had a problem.  Every time I do a full scan on the
>> comps we own, they come up clean, except for that PUP and the like
>> nonsense.  And all those warning have always been B.S.  You got to
>> use your head and past experiences in deciding if some of the stuff
>> an AV program is telling you is B.S.  We have 5 comps.  Never a
>> problem with Viruses or Trojans that weren't caught immediately by
>> the AV proggie we were using at the time.  Another thing, you have
>> to use the *best* of those programs as shown in AV Comparatives.
>> Forget the wannabes.  Read some of the reviews at Amazon by the
>> customers of certain AVs.  You learn things there, too. I look
>> mostly at the reviewers giving a proggie only a one or two stars.
>> I'm looking for the bad stuff more than the praised stuff.
>> 
>> I will say this again, using a sandbox eliminates pretty much the
>> worry of getting infected.  Yeah, there is some malware written to
>> get through sandboxes, but as far as I know they are few and far
>> between.  No way are they as proliferate as other common malware.
>> But being human, one screws up at times and screws around  without
>> the sandbox on.  That's when you better have a top AV and malware
>> detector working for you.
>> 
>> End of spawn.exe talk.  Acronis Ver. 8.0 has the last say.
>
>
>Hi Mark
>
>I solved MY problem by switching to an Apple Mac! ;-)
>
>Did you actually contact SAS and ask them if they have ever happened 
>across *malware which masquerades* as 'spawn.exe' - just to fool folk 
>just like you?

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