Is anyone out there running Google Desktop and can tell me the md5sum of their GoogleDesktop.exe file?

It's at C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe.

AVG is reporting that it's infected by some trojan (along with some other Google Talk executable). I'm pretty confident it's a false positive but just wanting to double check. Searching informs me that it's probably all good on this page.

My md5sum is f0187e45268e86aaaa932cbd9087bea8

I don't have google desktop installed but you can always upload the .exe to virustotal for another scan.

So paranoid troggy

I don't have google desktop installed but you can always upload the .exe to virustotal for another scan.

awesome:

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/4ad7d42795ecf85f1df87c56f06982ae33da23647cfbacbfaf194f55a81d4538-1261092989

Thanks dude, looks clear, just an AVG false positive

# md5sum GoogleDesktopSetup.exe
b423894b7a74ad7642107dc4c1cfb3c0 GoogleDesktopSetup.exe

PS: AVG is lame AV software.

Like your new avatar mongie, agree AVG is not the best option too. Avast! me hearties, if you want free A/V.

# md5sum GoogleDesktopSetup.exe
b423894b7a74ad7642107dc4c1cfb3c0 GoogleDesktopSetup.exe

Yours differs from trog's.

wrong file;

$ md5sum GoogleDesktop.exe
f0187e45268e86aaaa932cbd9087bea8 GoogleDesktop.exe

Heh, never realised that was a default installed command in linux

tuborg /home/pinky> md5sum peace.jpg

451d2a4a165d28e00af903dc94dd038c  peace.jpg

tuborg /home/pinky>

it's a seperate binary, not part of the shell
so it may or may not be present on all linux installs


what's wrong with avg out of interest?
I use the file server and sbs versions and from an administrative perspective it works well. it sucked a bit when version 8 first came out but they worked out the apparent issues in a couple of months. it has a good central management system and is easy to maintain and so far seems to be doing it's job of finding viruses

I don't think their detection / heuristics are as sophisticated as some of their competitors (McAfee, Symantec).

I was more refering to the free edition though :D

I haven't used AVG for over 12 months now, but the issue I had with it was that every little thing it did it wanted to let you know about. It was like permanent, "Hi, I'm here, grinding away pretending to solve problems that you don't really have." Popups all the time - and twice as annoying in Vista with UAC on (I like UAC, unlike most apparently) when you have to switch to see what some application is trying to spit out at you.

Avast! gives you the big Yankee, "Virus database has been updated" and a popup, but you can turn it off and after that it's not at all intrusive. And it works well.

I haven't tried Kaspersky free one. I'm 100% happy with Avast!

AVG has gone downhill from the last report I read this year, so I switched to avast.


Arrrrgh.

Checkout some independent AV tests to see what's better from an objective POV:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/
http://www.av-test.org/
http://www.checkvir.com/

I too switched from AVG to Avast and have never looked back, AVG was just s***ting me to tears after that whole V8 debacle

I use MS Security Essentials - and love it. Then again, I never get viruses even without at virus scanner at all... so I must be awesome.

edit: See...

Avira / Avast = 4.5 *
AVG / MS Essentials = 4*


last edited by mongie at 14:49:40 18/Dec/09

http://www.checkvir.com/

Last closed test - Dec 2008. *cough*

Best not to use that site perhaps. It looks like it was made in 1998.

I use MS Security Essentials - and love it. Then again, I never get viruses even without at virus scanner at all... so I must be awesome.

Awesome or boring. You decide.

I use MS Security Essentials - and love it. Then again, I never get viruses even without at virus scanner at all... so I must be awesome.

This. But that's for home pc though.

We use McAfee at work, terrible interface but it seems to get the job done and our security guys think its the s***.

EPO
VirusScan Enterprise
HIPS
etc.

mcafee is great when it's centrally managed and all you get is an icon in your sys-tray
any infects? the servers do all the work and get rid of it

AVG seriously slows down my computer - is Avast any better, or am I screwed either way? Cause at the moment, I'm just cancelling scans and not starting them up later cause I can't use my computer at the same time. Not overly safe...

why not schedule the scans for 3am or at another time you don't use your computer?

yeh protection pilot sure is a terrible interface
we used to use it before avg. until it let something slip into one of the networks we manage and some machines got infected

our avg setup is the same centrally-managed system mcaffee offered - just a systray icon on the client, although clients can run up the interface and do stuff manually if they want as well

I hate AVG 8+.

AVG seriously slows down my computer - is Avast any better, or am I screwed either way? C

I've got avast on here and my computer isn't too slow but I guess it depends on how s*** the computer is to start with. My guess is that any software which scans files as you open them is going to slow down your computer somewhat.