Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV detects XMR-Stak as malicious. Is this a false positive?

2021-11-19 Thread Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users
Al is right. If you don’t want to detect it ignore it. Using the ignore functions. — Sent from my  iPad On Nov 19, 2021, at 03:49, Al Varnell via clamav-users wrote:  I suspect that it's because there are several instances of malicious software that install xmr-stak unknowingly to the use

Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV detects XMR-Stak as malicious. Is this a false positive?

2021-11-19 Thread Al Varnell via clamav-users
I suspect that it's because there are several instances of malicious software that install xmr-stak unknowingly to the user who then become a miner bot for a cybercriminal. If I were you I would just put it in a clamav.fp file so it will ignore your installation while still identifying any oth

[clamav-users] ClamAV detects XMR-Stak as malicious. Is this a false positive?

2021-11-18 Thread happysmash27 via clamav-users
I decided to scan my entire /usr/ folder recently, as I heard about a malicious package in NPM and wanted to be extra sure nothing got into my system. I was slightly shocked when it finished, and it said there was 1 infected file. Unfortunately it did not list exactly what that infected file was