Gah, it's gotten worse!
I looked up agent.exe at VirusTotal today.
13 detections.
I up-voted it, so now it has 4 up-votes, zero down. But still.
Some have "RemoteUtilities" right in the name of the detection. What's up with that?
I mean, if they know exactly what program it is, why are they blocking it?
I suppose it's always possible that some malicious folk is trying to use the
RemoteUtilities agent to spy on their machine.
But agent requires user intervention before someone can do that, so, what gives?
The reason i looked this up is that Chrome would not let someone download it.
The VirusTotal report is at
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/00ac7713d4eb20fcf58c61d827c84105b979fef83a127d7ef1799bb322f8c26a/analysis/Here's it's header (I had trouble posting the entire report in here):
SHA256: 00ac7713d4eb20fcf58c61d827c84105b979fef83a127d7ef1799bb322f8c26a
File name: agent.exe
Detection ratio: 13 / 55
Analysis date: 2014-12-08 13:53:17 UTC ( 4 days, 7 hours ago )