Unrar.DLL - malware?

[Dustin Cook]

"Sentinel" <lukas.mariman@dommel.be> wrote in
news:5t313aF1boutaU1@mid.individual.net:

> I have a question. I have been using an app called SpyEraser from a
> company called UniBlue for a little while, and I just ran it, and it
> reported a file called Unrar.dll (located in the System32 subfolder of
> Windows) as malware.
>
> But is it? And how reliable is this SpyEraser app anyway?

SpyEraser seems to have mixed opinions, depending on the site you visit to
read about it. I don't have any personal experience with the program.

> I was wondering if any of you have had any experiences with unrar.dll
> and/or SpyEraser.

I have seen unrar.dll before, and it's not malicious by itself. It's a
generic library for unpacking archives. Different versions of it do exist,
but I can't say for sure based on filename alone that the unrar.dll you
have is one of the ones I've seen. I'd suggest you submit it to
http://scanner.virus.org or http://www.virustotal.com


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[Sentinel]

Dustin Cook wrote:
> "Sentinel" <lukas.mariman@dommel.be> wrote in
> news:5t313aF1boutaU1@mid.individual.net:
>
>> I have a question. I have been using an app called SpyEraser from a
>> company called UniBlue for a little while, and I just ran it, and it
>> reported a file called Unrar.dll (located in the System32 subfolder
>> of Windows) as malware.
>>
>> But is it? And how reliable is this SpyEraser app anyway?
>
> SpyEraser seems to have mixed opinions, depending on the site you
> visit to read about it. I don't have any personal experience with the
> program.
>
>> I was wondering if any of you have had any experiences with unrar.dll
>> and/or SpyEraser.
>
> I have seen unrar.dll before, and it's not malicious by itself. It's a
> generic library for unpacking archives. Different versions of it do
> exist, but I can't say for sure based on filename alone that the
> unrar.dll you have is one of the ones I've seen. I'd suggest you
> submit it to http://scanner.virus.org or http://www.virustotal.com

Thanks, I'll do that!