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Panda free antivirus detects qTox as suspect software #2170

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Deleetdk opened this issue Sep 3, 2015 · 8 comments
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Panda free antivirus detects qTox as suspect software #2170

Deleetdk opened this issue Sep 3, 2015 · 8 comments
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Deleetdk commented Sep 3, 2015

I am running Windows 8.1, 64bit.
Panda Free Antivirus 16.0.1.
qTox build 05fece4

Presumably a false positive, but worth looking into in case there was a recent pull from a 3rd party. Not necessarily caused by something qTox is doing wrong. However, it may be that if Panda detects it, some of the other antivirus programs will too.

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zetok commented Sep 3, 2015

Could it be added to https://wiki.tox.chat/users/problematic_antivirus_software ?

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tux3 commented Sep 3, 2015

I swear I'm going to write a packer just to keep the cheap AVs at bay.

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zetok commented Sep 4, 2015

@Deleetdk or could you at least provide info as what kind of "threat" qTox was identified, so that I could add it to the wiki?

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Deleetdk commented Sep 4, 2015

@zetok I wanted to, but since I added the program file to the exclusion list, it removed the detection from the history, so I can no longer see what it said specifically. It did not mention a particular virus, just "suspicious program" or something of that sort.

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sudden6 commented Sep 4, 2015

probably because off the p2p software part in toxcore...

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zetok commented Sep 5, 2015

I see.
I've added to wiki what I could - if someone has more info, please add it to the wiki.

@Deleetdk could you contact panda about it, so that they could fix their software?

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zetok commented Sep 6, 2015

Ok, thanks.
Since not much can be done about it, closing the issue.

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