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Why does Virustotal.com flag this as malicious? #12

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YESNLars opened this issue Aug 5, 2024 · 1 comment
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Why does Virustotal.com flag this as malicious? #12

YESNLars opened this issue Aug 5, 2024 · 1 comment

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YESNLars commented Aug 5, 2024

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/7a1cea7b7e80fd95fda715d16007710cb98aa70f9823841425b67bfba6ef0753

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gwarble commented Aug 5, 2024

its is almost for sure a false positive:

Sounds like maybe an antivirus flagging as a virus erroneously, you might have to explicitly allow it.
https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=289544#p289544
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I've had this text on my website for some years now, it needs to be updated to say 15 instead of 10:
"100% virus, malware, and spyware free for over 10 years! Despite many false positives..."

While the most reported issue since 2009, I have yet to ever find any actual virus locally or on any hosted copies.

Edit: I also do not sign the executable because of the costs involved, but this could contribute to the false positives since these lazy companies don't bother actually analyzing what the .exe does, they just use reputation and heuristics...

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