Quick warning for Razer users.

[Origin]

Just a FYI, the drivers offered on the Razer website seem to have been infected with trojans. Might pay for you to check your system if you have recently downloaded from their site.

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/21/razer_distributes_malware/

[5NIPER_WOLF]

This has been a problem for other companies too, such as Logitech.

The problem is, the drivers that are used will search online and download updates, this can be seem as a trojan for some anti-virus programs.

I absolutely assure you no company would willingly infect people's PC's.

However, this is not to say your computer isn't infected, you should remove the infected software, scan your system and then reinstall the software too eliminate the virus.

[koala]

Although it is known that antivrus programs can sometimes falsely report drivers as being infected, this problem of Razer's infected drivers (from 19-Sept onwards) has been confirmed, and is being looked into.

...Rik Ferguson, a senior security adviser in Europe with anti-virus firm Trend Micro, warned users could be at risk.

"A large amount of the device drivers offered for download at the Razer support site were infected with a Trojan," Ferguson wrote Monday. "It is unclear how long the problem has been ongoing, so in the meantime, if you downloaded anything from Razer recently, head over to HouseCall and run a full system scan and clean up if necessary."

According to Ferguson, the trojan was activated when users clicked on a link used to download drivers from the website. A recent analysis by VirusTotal shows the malware is detected by just seven of the 41 major AV products. The trojan then caused users to download a file named usbctl.exe, which installed another piece of malware known as WORM.ASPXOR.AB in a computer's system directory.

[ArmaTheGreek]

Maybe it's an error from the drivers that security softwares thinks it's harmful. But in Razer's case it is really a malicious program.