Comments on: NOD32 false alarm! Win32/Kryptik.JX

By: BitDefender solution for flagging Windows 64-bit files as Trojan.FakeAlert.5

BitDefender solution for flagging Windows 64-bit files as Trojan.FakeAlert.5 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:15:42 +0000

[...] with ESET’s NOD32 once when everything was being flagged as Kryptik.JX trojan but this time its BitDefender, they [...]

By: North

North — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:29:48 +0000

Thank you for gathering this info – my heart stopped when I came into work this morning and saw that.

By: Vion Sandor

Vion Sandor — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:00:57 +0000

Natalie,
It sounds to me like you might have an older version of Nod 32. (Current version is 3.0.669.0) What I first did regarding this false positive thing was to cross-check with another scanner to make sure. A good one is A-squared free: http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ which you can install and run without conflicts with Nod 32. If the scan comes up clean, the “Kryptik.JX” entries can all be restored from Nod 32’s quarantine. (This was a general mistake on their part).

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:06:13 +0000

After scanning last night, NOD32 said that I have 30 trojans, most or all with Kryptik.JX int he names. I did a system restore to last week. I don’t understand how I could have gotten all of those within a day, I don’t go on seriously dangerous websites. When I scanned after the system restore, it said there were no threats found, but all of those other ones still showed int he Threat Log. I’m so confused, I have no idea what to do. My friend is telling me to update my heuristic module to 1092 as well, but there’s no way to do it. Mine is at 1091 right now and I’ve looked everywhere. I have no idea how to update it to 1092. By the way, I have this trial version of it that lasts like a 1000 years or something like that, but it still has the scanning and cleaning and everything. Can someone please help me? Please respond on here. Thanks.

By: Vion Sandor

Vion Sandor — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:15:17 +0000

Thanks for this quick and accurate information. This morning I was working to finish a pressing Word document when Windows file protection prompted to insert my Windows disk. Needless to say that was very strange and unexpected (at this point nothing yet visible from Nod32). Windows seemed satisfied and I continued work, but then Nod32 popped up with all the red warnings about kryptik JX…so I ran a quick scan of the system 32 folder finding about 20 “infections”. I am pretty vigilant about computer security, so half expected this to be a fp, but I was nervous for a while. I’m sure this event affected a lot of users.

By: Annoyed Admin

Annoyed Admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:46:13 +0000

I lost three hours of my life/sleep to this last night, thinking that I got owned by a website I was on at the time. Time was wasted with repeated scanning in regular and safe modes, using three different software packages, then a windows repair install just to be safe, and reapplying all my windows patches, THEN fixing a driver problem caused by the repair.

This kept me up to 4am because I needed my computer functional for work in the morning.

I am very unhappy with eset on this one.