[osg-users] Windows: osgscribe.exe built in Visual Studio 2010 raises (false?) virus/trojan alarms

2013-03-12 Thread Christian Buchner
Hi,

I am building OpenSceneGraph 3.0.1 on Windows 7 32bit using Visual Studio
2010 Express using dependencies found here:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~bchrist/3rdParty_VC10_x86_x64.zip

What really is annoying is that some of the compiled examples persistently
trigger AntiVirus alerts. We've had this with Avira as well as McAffee - so
we either had to whitelist some executables or to uninstall the antivirus
solution.

I am not sure if this VirusTotal report is accessible to all of you, but it
shows 33 out of 45 antivirus engines producing a (false?) positive!

osgscribe.exe uploaded to virustotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/3632f40cabfa7fdf322b5a905e61d85d9a8d88e42430f5c7eab1b8a21fae225d/analysis/1363105395/

A few other executables in the examples folder are also affected.

Do we possibly have an infection in some of the dependencies, or is this a
true false alarm? If so, why would it be registered by so many individual
scanning engines?

Christian
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Re: [osg-users] Windows: osgscribe.exe built in Visual Studio 2010 raises (false?) virus/trojan alarms

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Hanson
You could try my dependencies and see if it's any different.

I notice a lot of false positives from antivirus tools, because they're
very fuzzy about what they look for and don't have nearly a large enough
library of negatives, especially among open source executables.



On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Christian Buchner 
christian.buch...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 I am building OpenSceneGraph 3.0.1 on Windows 7 32bit using Visual Studio
 2010 Express using dependencies found here:
 http://members.iinet.net.au/~bchrist/3rdParty_VC10_x86_x64.zip

 What really is annoying is that some of the compiled examples persistently
 trigger AntiVirus alerts. We've had this with Avira as well as McAffee - so
 we either had to whitelist some executables or to uninstall the antivirus
 solution.

 I am not sure if this VirusTotal report is accessible to all of you, but
 it shows 33 out of 45 antivirus engines producing a (false?) positive!

 osgscribe.exe uploaded to virustotal:

 https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/3632f40cabfa7fdf322b5a905e61d85d9a8d88e42430f5c7eab1b8a21fae225d/analysis/1363105395/

 A few other executables in the examples folder are also affected.

 Do we possibly have an infection in some of the dependencies, or is this a
 true false alarm? If so, why would it be registered by so many individual
 scanning engines?

 Christian


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