Earlier today, my Sophos anti virus software warned me that it had detected a virus in the "uninstall" bit of CCleaner.
I suspect a false positive, so I came here to see what is happening. I see a new version and try to download it, but Sophos tells me that it is infected.
Checking the archives here, I find an earlier hot tempered report of this behaviour that went round in circles and did not end up in a satisfactory resolution.
As I say, I suspect a false positive. These things happen, but not usually with Sophos, which is better than the usual cowboy stuff from Norton/Symantec. But I am not inclined to install something that is going to deliver these messages.
In this case, maybe a "bought in" component, the uninstaller, is responsible.
Here is the bit of the AV log that matters:
20061112 093251 Virus 'Troj/Zlob-VU' has been detected in "C:\Program Files\CCleaner\uninst.exe"
20061112 093251 Infected file "C:\Program Files\CCleaner\uninst.exe" has been moved to "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\INFECTED\uninst.exe.000".
20061112 101711 Virus 'Troj/Zlob-VU' has been detected in "C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\Temp\vq4xpv7i.exe"
20061112 101711 Infected file "C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\Temp\vq4xpv7i.exe" has been moved to "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\INFECTED\vq4xpv7i.exe.000".
The second half is the result of trying to download the latest version of CCleaner.
You might like to tell Sophos that you are good guys.