With this mornings update (3/5/08), C:\Windows\System32\WUAUCLT.exe (windows update agent) is being stopped by Comodo BOClean as DRP-AGENT.SCK malware.
Is this another false positive like the USERINIT.Exe fiasco of a few weeks ago or is this real?
I posted to Comodo’s BOClean forum and someone else promptly indicated the same thing happened to them. I have had quite a few clients receive this prompt, with at least one selecting “Yes” to BOClean’s offer to delete the file.
As of 24 hours later, Comodo has not chimed in; although my laptop, the first to experience the problem, updated the definition file again around 4pm and then no longer reported the problem.
This is frustrating. Yes, Comodo gives away BOClean for free, but I have a number of clients who paid for it just a year or two ago.
Compound this with the ongoing “file corrupt” message that only goes away if you know the trick (I have a video), and the UserInit.exe false alarm just a short time ago that rendered many PC’s unable to login (and me glad I typically install Windows Recovery Console on PC’s), and I’m about to pull my support of the formerly fantastic product and uninstall from all of my client computers.
Very sad. As another poster commented: “This never happened when Kevin (owner of NSClean who created it) was running the show”.
