Hi, I also think that it is false positive alert. Alert is displayed in browser
window as message that this site contains malicious software. It looks that it
is problem of Avast because other AV on other computer does not report it.
Petr
21. 8. 2024 21:38:58 Michał Dec via Freedos-user
:
> H
Hello,
I would discount Avast and Avira as real antivirus programs because they
have reliably false flagged open source projects (FuhQuake, ezQuake,
etc) and cracked game executables.
Best regards,
Michał Dec
W dniu 21.08.2024 o 21:13, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user pisze:
Yeah, that's one of
Yeah, that's one of the things were AVast (and other AV applications
too) has gotten really bad. Anything that even remotely looks like
"messing" directly with the hard drive is being flagged as potentially
malicious. Same goes for a lot of self-developed software, simply due to
the fact that t
Out of curiosity, I submitted the download URL to VirusTotal.
1 out of 96 online scanners flagged it as "Malicious"
That was Sucuri SiteCheck.
So, I went over to their site and directly submitted the same URL there.
It comes back as "Medium Risk" and the only reason it gives
Scan failed,
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 5:57 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Is the hash different than the officially published ones?
>
> https://www.freedos.org/download/verify.txt
>
Good question. I just checked the sha512sums on the FreeDOS Files
Archive at Iibiblio, comparing them to a copy of
Is the hash different than the officially published ones?
https://www.freedos.org/download/verify.txt
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 1:21 PM Petr Ullmann via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> maybe it is false alert but when I try to download FreeDOS live CD
> (
>
You didn't mention the specific warning text that you see, but since
this comes up once in a while (although not too frequently) I think I
know what you are seeing. Yes, it is a false positive.
Virus scanning software isn't always able to find an *exact* match for
viruses. To try to find "zero day
Hi guys,
maybe it is false alert but when I try to download FreeDOS live CD
(https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/official/FD13-LiveCD.zip)
I get warning from Avast that the website is infected by some virus.
Can somebody else same error?
Thanks.
Petr
