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
<[email protected]> 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
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