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Problematic antiviruses

b2000699 edited this page Aug 22, 2016 · 27 revisions

There were / are some antiviruses that mark the qTox client as false positive.

The reasons why some antivirus engines might find qTox code suspicious are discussed here.

Please make sure that you did get qTox from one of links in [README.md] (https://github.com/tux3/qTox/blob/master/README.md#qtox).

If your antivirus reports a version of qTox to be infected and this is not on the list, you may want to report it here. Please also report the problem to your antivirus producer.

List of currently problematic antiviruses

On 2016-06-15 13:51 UTC, Virustotal.com reported all 32 bit, 64 bit, installer, portable, binary and source code versions of qTox for GNU/Linux, OSX and Microsoft Windows available for download at that time to be clean by all 54 antivirus engines that Virustotal.com uses, except for the Windows 64 bit installer, which was reported to contain Trojans by the following 3 (updated 2016-07-29: 0) Antivirus engines:

Update 2016-07-29: No findings for the Windows 64 bit installer Virus Scan

Update 2016-08-22: No findings for the Windows 64 bit installer Virus Scan

Archive: Historical list of previously problematic antiviruses

The following antivirus engines have had reported findings / false positives in one or more versions of qTox at some point in the past but do not anymore today for any version of qTox:

Ad-Aware

  • 2015-06-13, reported qTox as Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9

Contact LavaSoft

AegisLab

Contact AegisLabs

ALYac

  • 2015-06-13, reported qTox as Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9

Contact ALYac

Arcabit

  • 2015-06-13, reported qTox as Trojan.Adware.SMShoax.9

Contact Arcabit

Avira

  • 2015-03-20, reported qTox update as TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen2

Contact Avira [Another way of contacting Avira] (https://avira.ideascale.com/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=selfhelp)

BitDefender

  • 2015-06-13, reported qTox as Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9

Contact BitDefender

Emsisoft

  • 2015-06-13, reported qTox as Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9 (B)

Contact Emsisoft

F-Secure

  • 2015-06-13, reported qTox as Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax

Contact F-Secure

GData

  • 2014-11-12, reported qTox updater as Virus: Gen:Variant.Kazy.205528
  • 2015-06-13, reported qTox as Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9

Contact GData

Ikarus

Contact Ikarus

Jiangmin

Contact Jiangmin (Email addresses have self-explanatory English names)

Kapersky

Contact Kapersky

Micro-World

  • 2015-06-13, MicroWorld-eScan reported qTox as Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9

Contact MicroWorld

Panda Free Antivirus

Contact Panda Security

Qihoo-360

Rising

  • 2016-04-10, reported qTox updater as NS:Adware.GigaClicks!1.A4C7 [F]Virus Scan

[Contact Rising (No longer offering support but false positives can be reported)] (http://www.rising-global.com/)

Trend Micro

  • 2014-11-12, reported qTox installer as PAK_Generic.005
  • 2014-11-12, TrendMicro-HouseCall reported qTox installer as PAK_Generic.005

Contact Trend Micro

Zillya

Contact Zillya