Mercury flagged as virus

[Jesu-dotcom]

I installed Mercury from the main repo. After launching it, I didn't have any issue immediately. After five minutes of using it, my antivirus started to flag it as a trojan:

Event: Object deleted Application: Mercury User: ----- User type: Initiator Component: System Watcher Result description: Deleted Type: Trojan Name: PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic Threat level: High Object type: Process Object path: C:\Program Files\Mercury Object name: mercury.exe MD5: -----

This has happened at least 4 times.

Why did it happen? Should I just add an expcecion to my antivirus or is there something that's not working properly with Mercury?

[Jesu-dotcom]

Btw, I noticed that it was addressed here https://github.com/Alex313031/Mercury/issues/39, but as I mentioned, I'm still experiencing this issue with the latest release.

[Maki711]

Same here... This is very BAD for the promotion of the software... @Alex313031 I believe if this is not fixed, some communities will blacklist you and your software...

Ereignis: Objekt gelöscht Programm: Mercury Benutzer: --- Benutzertyp: Initiator Komponente: Aktivitätsmonitor Ergebnisbeschreibung: Gelöscht Typ: Trojaner Name: PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic Bedrohungsstufe: Hoch Objekttyp: Prozess Objektpfad: C:\Program Files\Mercury Objektname: mercury.exe

[gz83]

Mercury does not use malicious code or bundle malicious components, please consider this a false alarm from your antivirus program and try to report the problem to your antivirus vendor (from the information you provided, it seems you are currently using Kaspersky?).

@Jesu-dotcom @Maki711

[skifli]

I use Kaspersky and it was not flagged.

[Jesu-dotcom]

Yes, I'm using Kaspersky. I understand, I will add the exclusions.

[Maki711]

Mercury does not use malicious code or bundle malicious components, please consider this a false alarm from your antivirus program and try to report the problem to your antivirus vendor (from the information you provided, it seems you are currently using Kaspersky?).

@Jesu-dotcom @Maki711

For me it is not a problem to mark it into whitelist of my AV (Kaspersky) but an average user will not do that or even knows how to do that. The moment the average user see this, it is a game over. It is not up to a user to report this to the AV provider, it is up to the program developer/publisher to make sure the program is useable for waste majority of users. In this case, the software is not yet ready for public usage, in my opinion. And many users will be scared off by this the moment they google this browser.

I will report it to Kaspersky, but still. It would be nice to permanently fix this. There is already a discussion about this here: #39

[Maki711]

I use Kaspersky and it was not flagged.

Newest Kaspersky does flag this as Trojan.