Other Super-Pi - Malware?

Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware, a normally excellent (free) program, last night picked up Super-Pi's .exe file (I think it's called superpimod.exe) as Malware.Packer.Krunchy.

I went through and let it delete the .exe's anyway, but is that likely to be a false positive, or has something infected that .exe file from somewhere else?

Can anyone with MBAM + SuperPi update and scan their SuperPi folder, just to check for me?
Cheers.

 

Where did you get your copy of superpi from?

 

Sounds like it's packed with something bizarre which tricks your AV.

 

Umm, I got it from the ordinary place, xtremesystems.

It must just be a false positive. Still odd though

 

If you got it from XS without interference it must be a false positive, it's not unheard of.

 

bet it's picking up the code that taxes the cpu.. like if you know some guy has crappy cooling- you could design a trojan to max out his cpu and burn up his cpus over time when the rig is idle

 

I highly doubt it. It's more likely because sections of SuperPi must be written in Assembly in order to access low level hardware functions and certain 'coding hacks' can look suspicious.

 

yeah could be anything.. but packer krunchy, haven't looked it up is more than likely the looping part of the code that's being picked up- that av might even flag prime or orthos for the same thing.. super pi last I remember running it doesn't need admin to run a set (been awhile though.. might be wrong)