I've been running HR for a couple of years now without any virus/malware problems. However, just this morning my anti-virus software detected and quarantined a TR/Dropper.MSIL.avjdt from the Hearthranger_init_Helper.exe program. TR/Dropper.MSI's are defined as a family of trojan horses that seek to spy out data, violate privacy, or perform unwanted modifications to the system. My anti-virus software was automatically updated about 1/2 hour before the above notification, so maybe it's a new false positive. Regardless, I want to bring this up just in case.

i have the same problem and cos' of it HR doesn't work so fix it pls; turning off antivirus and re-downloading HR doesn't work; there is a problem with the current version of HR; u can't open hr helper exe or sg

Yesterday it was working fine

HR is buggy

Same here, Avira detected an HR file as a virus and quarantined it. I have restored it and added it to the list of exceptions, but the updater still does not work.

I wanna report an ABNORMAL bandwidth usage. While monitoring, I noticed the process can go higher than 1mbps, which saturates my connection. There is definitively something weird.

EDIT : time to sleep now, but I'll upload some picture displaying usage. Even stopped, this is frightening.

@JoyAdmin: Did you see my question too?

Might not be the appropriate thread, but since I first told about it here I keep going... (please move to a separate thread if needed)

http://i64.tinypic.com/i69so7.png

Columns after process names are DL and UL rates.
HR's download rate is high and so is HS upload.

If I pause the bot but keep HR running, I got like 300 kbps usage for both : http://i65.tinypic.com/294j7s6.png
If I play HS in a regular way, a few bytes : http://i66.tinypic.com/2h4xhzt.png (doesn't display it, but it sends some stuff)

Point of these screenshots is that I'm using ~700 kbps to watch some stream. If I keep running HR, it can use more and prevent me from using my inet. Any idea ?

Hey all I'm a network security engineer. I play with viruses for a living and have a $50k firewall installed here at my house because I work for a manufacturer. We have very high efficacy rating and my firewalls and 10x more efficient than endpoint security software. I have not had any gateway antivirus hits on this software. I'm doing SSL inspection and I did have to create an exclusion for a url of notepc that is being used for SSL connection. So there is a pinned cert in the connection state being used. I imagine it has something to do with the licensing backend and what not. I'm also able to get my hands on almost every type of end point antivirus software and I check these types of programs fairly religiously since my business is malware protection and I have a lot of live malware in my lab. I imagine you are getting some type of false positive based on the update that you have had. I've seen false positives pop up for all kinds of files from java to packed exe files in linux iso etc. Considering the amount of security gear sitting here at my house and no hits on this product. Either this is one of the most advanced malware programs ever or you have a false positive.