1.5.0 gets detected as a virus

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1.5.0 gets detected as a virus

Closed this issue a year ago · 5 comments

HangingWithCMM commented a year ago

Answer 1 · 2023-03-19T13:21:10.000Z

Avast ,Jiangmin and AVG is known for false reports

Answer 2 · 2023-03-19T13:21:57.000Z

you should report to Avast Jiangmin and AVG that this is not a virus

Answer 3 · 2023-03-19T17:16:02.000Z

I have sent samples of 1.5.0 to AVG, Avast, and Jiangmin. There is nothing further we can do.

For Jiangmin in particular, I will note that if you Google Jiangmin, you find a bunch of people complaining about it reporting false positives in popular pieces of software like VLC.

Answer 4 · 2023-03-20T14:38:16.000Z

Avast and AVG (they're basically the same company) say that this should be fixed shortly

Answer 5 · 2023-03-28T15:45:26.000Z

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/81c81bd9d56cca946eda7d420ee5c590b3bcf1ce6587b81f86ca67a6f73ef37f/detection

While Avast and AVG did in fact realize we are a false positive, McAfee-GW-Edition now thinks we're "Artemis". I have submitted a false positive report to them.

Jiangmin never responded to my support email and it seems we will just have to cope. As a reminder, the Google search results for "Jiangmin" are dominated by security vulnerabilities in the product and people complaining that it detects VLC as a virus. Feel free to make your own decisions about whether to trust it.