Re: [wsjt-devel] Windows installers alerting for malware on VirusTotal
I don’t know how much this helps, but one thing I’ve done is to sign up a (free) Virus Total account. It allows you to weigh in on the community score. From: Black Michael via wsjt-devel Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 11:43 PM To: Joseph Botto via wsjt-devel Cc: Black Michael Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Windows installers alerting for malware on VirusTotal I just submitted wsjtx-2.5.1-win64.exe to virus total and got 1 hit on a generic (it shows 2 but lists 1). https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b2007bf26ede3e8f68866d817971645c3c6fb88c9a952ba7bc3982993ce453c8 None of the listed items that are inserted are on my system so it's definitely a false positive. Anti-virus vendors are false alarming on all sorts of things nowadays. All you have to do is submit it and they whitelist it pretty quickly. Not seen 1 piece of ham software yet that had a virus in it. JTAlert gets alerted on every release and gets whitelisted every release too. Mike W9MDB On Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 05:46:53 PM CDT, Joseph Botto via wsjt-devel mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > wrote: Hello all, Over the last few releases of WSJT-X, the Windows installers available for download from the main WSJT-X site (https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html) have been alerting on VirusTotal for malware. This has been exhibited going back to at-least the 2.3.x branch. The VirusTotal scan results can be viewed directly by uploading one of the installers to VirusTotal, and either seeing the archived results, or re-running the scans. While the installers are only alerting for 3/64 scanner products (which indicates that they are likely false positives), I personally won't install anything downloaded from the internet that has even one alert. Would the WSJT-X developers be able to contact those alerting scanners to see why the installers are being flagged as containing malware? 73, -Joe Botto KM4SQS http://km4sqs.blogspot.com/ https://github.com/km4sqs ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
Re: [wsjt-devel] Windows installers alerting for malware on VirusTotal
I just submitted wsjtx-2.5.1-win64.exe to virus total and got 1 hit on a generic (it shows 2 but lists 1).https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b2007bf26ede3e8f68866d817971645c3c6fb88c9a952ba7bc3982993ce453c8 None of the listed items that are inserted are on my system so it's definitely a false positive. Anti-virus vendors are false alarming on all sorts of things nowadays. All you have to do is submit it and they whitelist it pretty quickly. Not seen 1 piece of ham software yet that had a virus in it. JTAlert gets alerted on every release and gets whitelisted every release too. Mike W9MDB On Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 05:46:53 PM CDT, Joseph Botto via wsjt-devel wrote: Hello all, Over the last few releases of WSJT-X, the Windows installers available for download from the main WSJT-X site (https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html) have been alerting on VirusTotal for malware. This has been exhibited going back to at-least the 2.3.x branch. The VirusTotal scan results can be viewed directly by uploading one of the installers to VirusTotal, and either seeing the archived results, or re-running the scans. While the installers are only alerting for 3/64 scanner products (which indicates that they are likely false positives), I personally won't install anything downloaded from the internet that has even one alert. Would the WSJT-X developers be able to contact those alerting scanners to see why the installers are being flagged as containing malware? 73, -Joe BottoKM4SQShttp://km4sqs.blogspot.com/ https://github.com/km4sqs ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
[wsjt-devel] Windows installers alerting for malware on VirusTotal
Hello all, Over the last few releases of WSJT-X, the Windows installers available for download from the main WSJT-X site ( https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html) have been alerting on VirusTotal for malware. This has been exhibited going back to at-least the 2.3.x branch. The VirusTotal scan results can be viewed directly by uploading one of the installers to VirusTotal, and either seeing the archived results, or re-running the scans. While the installers are only alerting for 3/64 scanner products (which indicates that they are likely false positives), I personally won't install anything downloaded from the internet that has even one alert. Would the WSJT-X developers be able to contact those alerting scanners to see why the installers are being flagged as containing malware? 73, -Joe Botto KM4SQS http://km4sqs.blogspot.com/ https://github.com/km4sqs ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
