Download IMGBURN - Malware found: MalSign.OpenCandy.7AF

[OneBigNewbie]

I am trying to download the current IMGBURN from the official IMGBURN website, the website provides many Mirror Sites for the dowload.

For all the Mirror Sites I went to do the download, the .exe file of IMGBURN contains the MalSign.OpenCandy.7AF which according to AVG is a malware, treating it as a threat, and asked me if I want to remove the threat. I did, and the IMGBURN download aborted.

I then Googled what MalSign.OpenCandy.7AF is, and many places confirm that this is a nasty malware, which for its removal in an infected computer may entail re-installing the operating system.

Is there any way around this malware and yet be able to get a clean download of IMGBURN?

If any of you good people here have a source or a download site which provides a clean copy of IMGBURN, please advise.

Appreciate your great help in advance.

[OneBigNewbie]

Additional Information:

The reason I wanted to download IMGBURN is to use it to burn a Windows 7 ISO onto a DVD.

If you have an alternative - native within Windows 7 - which works, please advise.

I have read the following from Microsoft, it states in the Notes section that the Windows Disc Image Burner cannot be used to burn the Windows 7 Image DVD.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/w...om-an-iso-file

[Midknyte]

Where do you see that you can't burn the Win7 iso? I think your link says it can't create .iso files, not that you can't burn them.

Otherwise, infrarecorder can burn it.
http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5
http://dai-videotutes.blogspot.com/2...rning-iso.html

[OneBigNewbie]

Oh... I mis-read the paragraph.

So Windows Disc Image Burner can create a Window 7 installation disk.

Problem solved. Thanks.

[fink]

FWIW that program does apparently contain malware.. adware to be specific..

Here's the result of a multiscan (I'd thought it might be a false positive)

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a...375e/analysis/

[Train]

Adwcleaner will remove the malware.

[HAN]

I read this thread and started laughing! AVG calling OpenCandy malware. That's a good one! Amazing how things are different when the shoe is on the other foot.

Yes, OpenCandy can deliver unwanted programs if a user is not careful (this ONLY happens if the user allows it. And unless OpenCandy has changed it's tactics, it's NOT malware. Just sort of a pain in the neck.) But AVG has been using the identical method, trying to install it's AVG Security Toolbar and/or AVG Secure Search in many program installations too. Where is the difference?

In my mind... none!

[OneBigNewbie]

Someone told me nearly 30 years ago that some of the Anti-Virus developers in the PC market were also developing viruses and spreading them in order to get people to buy their Anti-Virus software,,,

Now it seems the tactics are being deployed.

Same goes for the pharma industry, the food industry, and the weapons industry?

[SpywareDr]

Someone told me nearly 30 years ago that some of the Anti-Virus developers in the PC market were also developing viruses and spreading them in order to get people to buy their Anti-Virus software,,,

Now it seems the tactics are being deployed.

Same goes for the pharma industry, the food industry, and the weapons industry?

The older you get, the more you realize: It's all about the money/greed.