PrcViewer malware warning after installing multiAVCHD from videohelp mirror

[rjamesd05]

After installing multiAVCHD from the videohelp.com mirror (as advised on http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/ ) at http://www.videohelp.com/download/multiAVCHD_3.0.exe

I got a warning from my AntiVirus program, McAfee, that "PrcViewer is a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) and would I like to have this removed?"

I said yes to have it removed and I got no further messages from McAfee, so I don't know if it was removed or not.

But I wondered what this program is and why is would be classed as a PUP?

Apparently from my research, it is a command line tool for deleting or modifying Windows processes, but why would this be necessary for a video encoding/authoring tool such as multiAVCHD?

It concerns me that I would encounter this situation after downloading what appears to be a respected tool (multiAVCHD) endorsed by-and-from a mirror on a respected website videohelp.com

What also concerns me is the license agreement with multiAVCHD which reads something like "accepts no responsibility for the eventual loss/damage to files" *eventual loss* ???!!! Is this bad English or does this mean that multiAVCHD will eventually damage your files? I would think not but I need to make this point that what appears to be bad English can cause alarm.

Another concern is that no-one else had encountered this problem and searches on google and this forum show no results for this problem.

Thoughts?

(I'm not interested in comments about the AntiVirus I have chosen to use (NAI AntiVirus as well as McAfee reports it, nor am I interested in comments about not using Windows and using a Mac instead).

[johns0]

I checked my multiavchd and no PrcViewer was found,i'll check the file you downloaded.I just checked and theres no PrcViewer in multiavchd,most likely its in your system to start with and got in the dir.

[multiAVCHD]

There is a tool called 'process.exe' in multiAVCHD's tools folder. It makes some AV programs report it as an 'unwanted' application. PROCESS.EXE is used to handle pause/resume/process-priority-change for x264 encoding (when transcoding) and it is not a malware or something that you should worry about.

Dean

p.s. About the 'eventual' folders/files corruption... There was this bug long time ago, which would allow a user to set a "TEMP" folder to the root of a drive (for example C:\), which caused troubles once a temp-clean-up is performed...

multiAVCHD was made fool-proof about a lot of things since then, but I didn't remove the warning.

[rjamesd05]

Thank you for the reassurance and giving some background about why it occurred.

[lordsmurf]

Your av checker is being stupid.
Use http://www.virustotal.com for future questions like this.