hit with trojan:JS/Agent.FA while working on Einstein@home

Michael
Michael
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I got hit by a trojan horse JS/Agent.FA while running data for Einstein@home???

Jord
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hit with trojan:JS/Agent.FA while working on Einstein@home

Which anti-virus software thinks you got this?
Check the file that your AV says is infected with virustotal.com, which checks it against 30+ other AV programs. If most to all say you're infected, you are. If only your package says it is so, it is a false positive and you can instruct your AV software to omit active scanning of the BOINC Data directory & subdirectories.

It is most probably the way the Einstein code works that is upsetting the AV scanner and it throwing a wildcard at you. If any Einstein software was infected by and from the project, we'd all be screaming bloody murder here.

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