Hey all, this is Jozerworx, author of the widget. There is NO TROJAN in this widget. If you don't believe me, ask the guys who run the site, who inspect every single widget before they post it. The program Speedread.exe is a very small (52,786 bytes) program that reads speedfan's shared memory to display the temperatures. If you do not believe me, try unzipping the widget (change .widget file to .zip file), extract the contents, and run speedread.exe located in contents/resources/exe…. You will need to run the program from the command line, and the output will look something like this:

Speedreader 1.0 Copyright 2007 by Jozerworx.
Temperature: 11
Fans: 5
Volts: 3
52.0 38.0 [lots more numbers here]

The numbers you get will probably be different. I'm no expert, but I do not believe that most viruses would fit into an 52kb file an leave room for anything else. Also, I have tested this program with multiple other (much more reputable) antivirus scanners without problem. AVG and Avast are free, and has one of the lowest detection rates of any package available. This program is checked out as virus free by Norton 2006, 2007, 2008, Symantec Corporate 10, McAfee Antivirus and Corporate, and Kaspersky, all the industry leaders. More

Hi all,

Same with me, AVG recently warn me that this program is a Trojan. But that's when I updated my AVG with the latest virus definition.

I already use this widget for quite a long time, I agree, the warning are false alarm.

BEWARE!! Contains Win32 Trojan. Found by Avast.

I am assuming that this is a false positive,

In order to get my widget to work again, I had to close both the widget and speedfan and start them up again, every time my AV detected speedread.exe as a threat I clicked on the ignore button, and kept doing this until the add to exceptions button appeared then clicked on this, now the widget works

Hope this helps

a couples of months i used this and works find and today my AVG just detected that this thins is a virus :threat name potentially harmful program exploit .BQZ at:

documents and settings\user\local setings\aplication data\yahoo\widget engine\unzipped\speedfan temperature monitor.widget\speedfan.widget\contents\resources\exe\speedread.exe

documents and settings\user\local setings\aplication data\yahoo\widget engine\unzipped…\speedfan temperature monitor.widget\speedfan.widget\contents\resources\exe\speedread.exe

process name D:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
prosess ID : 2464

process name D:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
prosess ID : 3912

and i cant get it work again,, can somone fix or verify this threat?
and i hope theres a update on this. thx More