Gom Player contains Keylogger?

[SMELTN]

Good Morning,

So I have had Gom player for a long time now, but come to work this morning and my work Antivirus was up on the screen showing me that it had detected a keylogger in the uninstaller for Gom Player..

Now my question is, are we looking at a false alarm here or is this the real deal? I downloaded Gom Player from the Gom website a few months ago, haven't updated it in probably a month or 2. Haven't even ran it in over a month. So what would have caused it to pop up now?

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Another exe infecting it?

[SMELTN]

no idea. I uninstalled Gom and removed the entire folder.

[Ci7]

could be false positive from norton SEP part through recent definition update?

[Slackerr]

virustotal.com showed no suspicion.

[Glen]

Have to agree with Ci7 as it could be a false positive. The only way to tell is to download a fresh copy from the official website again and see if you get the same alert. If you do, you'll probably want to report it to the Gom Player team.

[Solixis]

I also use GOM, scans look clean here. Besides, this is the media player of choice for all of South Korea, you would think that many people would notice something would be wrong with it

[BryanChung]

Oh I thought I was the only one preferring GOMplayer over VLC player. =D

[yxz]

http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue112

[_BeanZ_]

  yxz said:

http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue112

Congratulations on posting a completely irrelevant link.

[SMELTN]

  _BeanZ_ said:

Congratulations on posting a completely irrelevant link.

agreed

[Pt8]

I got the same thing from my GOM player during my Symantec scan and got here after a quick Google search. I'm thinking either we both ran into the same problem or it's a minor screw up on Symantec's end. Either way GOM is off my computer to be safe but maybe a rise in Symantec users with this will start to show up...

[SMELTN]

I wonder if there was an update yesterday to Symantec that is detecting this as a false positive. Guess we should really start looking more into it and see if we can find an answer.

[Pt8]

Just a little update. Maybe you should run another full scan, might just be me but after quarantining GOM uninstall, then deleting it and scanning again I found another spyware.keylogger in my restore files that wasn't there earlier... Not sure if it's related but it wasn't there when it found the GOM one...

[Liminal]

I ran into the same thing this morning. Google search brought me here...

I'm using Symantec, and I downloaded GOMplayer several months ago from the official site (or a link at the site). I'm assuming this is a false hit, but like many, I will uninstall until I hear/see some confirmation that it's not an accurate hit.

[SMELTN]

Good to see we are all having the same issue, which tells me more and more its a false positive that needs to be reported to GOM/Symantec.

Glad you found us on Google search to find your answers and see you aren't the only one with the problems

[still1]

Could be false positive. uninstaller is usually considered as suspicious software by most anivirus.

[Appzalien]

All anti-virus's screw up occasionally just be thankful its not deleting system files without your permission. When any Anti-virus shows a change from the last scan, its usually because during the last definitions update it put in something wrong. After many people complain to them, they will fix it in the next update or two. When this happens to me I usually take it with a grain of salt and do a little scanning with other apps like Asquared free or use one of the many online scanners or file upload sites where they scan your uploaded files for you. Once several other apps say its OK you can often tell your anti-virus to ignore it from that point on and forget about waiting for an update.

AVG is well known for screwing its customers with the wrong definitions. They even once ruined everyones PC and forced reinstalls cause they deleted system files. Only the smart ones who told it to ignore the file instead of sheepishly following the false positive escaped harm.

[+Warwagon MVC]

My money is on false positive. I love Gom player for the most part. Some times I load a video that doesn't have a video process bar, then VLC in that case plays it just fine.

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Agreed it is most likely a FP, a lot of AV people use the same sources for their updates, which causes this issue. GOM player is by far the best player out there, and I am sure their forums would be rife with complaints if there was an issue such as this.