Antivirus wrong positives #200
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In general, people should use the Microsoft builtin antivirus (Windows Defender). It's not a bloatware, it's solid and safe, it's free, and it's made by Microsoft. We should have a wiki page about that. |
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VirusTotal offers an online service for scanning files using many different vendor's engines. I just submitted the latest version (vdhcoapp-2.0.10-windows-x86_64-installer.exe), and it triggered no flags: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/8dfa09075fe95fe41cb40779beeba3e1ea2ff04370cadd1255af2812ab7fbf4f Without more specifics, this seems unactionable. |
Thank you for that! Didn't know about that service. |
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New version is detected as virus by two vendors: |
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As usual, that's just antivirus being dumb. Here is my take on this: https://github.com/aclap-dev/video-downloadhelper/wiki/CoApp-and-Antivirus |
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Suppose I said that because I had problems with several video
capture/downloaders, I said that were all bad. Would that be true? (I'm
assuming you're saying no 😁).
You are tarring an entire class of software because many of them truly do
suck.
And I can guarantee -- for whatever reason -- that many people love the
software that sucks.
I myself use two anti-malware programs that complement each other. They
have rarely gotten in my way and have worked well for years, since even
before Defender first came out (and it was very horrible then). I still
don't trust Defender.
Check out christitus.com. He also has a YT channel and one vid took a look
at anti-virus. Hint: he thinks most are useless.
It would be interesting to take a poll of MSPs to see what they generally
use for their customers. MSPs make money when their customers don't have
problems (unless there are special requests not normally covered), so it's
in their best interest to recommend something that works.
An MSP I’m familiar with uses Sentinel, but that is a real pain in the
butt, having lots of false positives. <Sigh> I'd never use it.
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Hi, I received a report from the antivirus for a "Trojan-PSW.Win64.Disco.evv" contained in the companion App for Windows 7. Here is the installer link: |
Looks like CoApp 2.0.10 is seen as a threat in some contexts by antiviruses, on Windows I guess.
This thead talks about BitDefender https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/3t8v8WtDkww/m/qd0W9pvBAwAJ
User says he is ready to send info if needed.
Another one is with Avast, she managed to install after switching off the antivirus
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