PVS-Studio warning V547 for Shareaza

void CRemote::Output(LPCTSTR pszName)
{

  ...
  CHAR* pBytes = new CHAR[ nBytes ];
  hFile.Read( pBytes, nBytes );
  ...
  if ( nBytes > 3 &&
       pBytes[0] == 0xEF &&
       pBytes[1] == 0xBB &&
       pBytes[2] == 0xBF )
  {
    pBytes += 3;
    nBytes -= 3;
    bBOM = true;
  }
  ...
}

This suspicious code was found in Shareaza project by PVS-Studio static code analyzer.
Warning message is:
V547 Expression 'pBytes [ 0 ] == 0xEF' is always false. The value range of signed char type: [-128, 127]. Shareaza remote.cpp 350

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