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r3dfox is a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows 7. SourceForge link for downloading with older browsers. https://sourceforge.net/projects/r3dfox/
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Fixing VirusTotal false positive #63

Closed rovickti closed 1 month ago

rovickti commented 2 months ago

VirusTotal has different false positive each for the 2 downloads I tested:

r3dfox-125.0.3.en-US.win64.installer.exe: Zilya, Palo Alto Networks r3dfox-125.0.3.en-US.win64.portable.7z: VirIT

The portable version has a different scanner report an issue, while that scanner doesn't have a problem with the exe installer. You're packaging both versions yourself, right?

Edit: the portable one seems to have cleared itself when I reanalyzed just now 0/55.

New people might want to check VirusTotal before using software for the first time, so it looks better if VirusTotal has a clean report.

Sourceforge submits automatically I think, but these scanners have been slow to whitelist despite r3dfox being a browser - e.g. 123.0.2 has a false positive so this issue has been around for a while.

The AV companies have their false positive contact emails listed. Introducing the project, giving the homepage, and github/sourceforge download pages might encourage them to monitor in future: https://docs.virustotal.com/docs/false-positive-contacts

K4sum1 commented 1 month ago

Seeing as it automatically clears itself I think it's fine. Anyone familiar with Virustotal knows that a few false positives are a given.