I agree with you Sam, WB6RJH. Attackers nowadays are so dangerously skilled, that potentially can infect every OS.
The point is that Windowa is (most likely) still the most used OS in the world, for this reason is the most attacked too. 73 de PY1ZRJ Inviato da Outlook per Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Sam Sjogren via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 3:57:30 PM To: DG2YCB <dg2...@gmx.de> Cc: Sam Sjogren <wb6...@gmail.com>; WSJT software development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] virus found in wsjtx-2.7.0-rc8-win64.exe Uwe et.al<http://et.al>., Thank you for submitting the files to Microsoft. I've not encountered a false positive like this before, I will know what to do in the future. And I appreciate your reassurance in the preventative measures in place. I'll check again in a few days after the virus signature files get update. Btw, I note that Firefox doesn't flag the download as infected even though Chrome does. As for comments from others, I don't think that OSes other than Windows are inherently completely secure (note the XZ compression library breach, just for one case) nor do I think it generally is a good idea to turn off virus protection. As for me, I'm retired from development, including security software, and am just going to flag these sorts of warnings (and in the future submit the cases to Microsoft). I do use various other operating systems, but for a lot of use cases Windows does the job that I want it to even if those systems are outnumbered by Linux and macOS systems for other uses and users in my home/lab technomenagerie. 73, -Sam WB6RJH On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM DG2YCB <dg2...@gmx.de<mailto:dg2...@gmx.de>> wrote: Hi Sam and all, Today I sent all four RC8 Windows 64-bit installation files (WSJT-X and wsjt-x_improved) to Microsoft for analysis. Last time it took about 3 days for the files to be confirmed as virus-free and for the virus scanner signature to be updated. But once again: You can (and should) do this yourself in such cases. The installers I have created have never contained any viruses. My computer is strictly monitored in this respect; and SourceForge also tests every file again. 73 de DG2YCB, Uwe _________________________________________ German Amateur Radio Station DG2YCB Dr. Uwe Risse eMail: dg2...@gmx.de<mailto:dg2...@gmx.de> Info: www.qrz.com/db/DG2YCB<http://www.qrz.com/db/DG2YCB> Am 14. Januar 2025 05:41:37 schrieb Sam Sjogren via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>>: Earlier this evening I downloaded wsjtx-2.7.0-rc8-win64.exe from SourceForge on a Win10 system. Chrome said a virus was detected. A Windows Defender scan showed the file infected with Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml and said "This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker." -- 73, -Sam WB6RJH _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel -- 73, -Sam WB6RJH
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