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Maxstupo / ydl-ui

A UI for the command-line video downloader "youtube-dl"
MIT License
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detected as a virus #80

Closed Notaghost9997 closed 3 years ago

Notaghost9997 commented 3 years ago

detected as a virus by BitDefender.

here is virus total result https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/858809656eed91273b44e371cf97d5f53ffb13b7aeeb85125b373c996ce61d57/detection detected as virus by 15 out of 64

Edit: i know people didnt like this issue i know i can see the source code i am not expert in C# i am sharing this project on reddit and some user complained that it is being detected as a virus and then i verified it myself https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/j954xy/late_2020_whats_the_best_youtubedl_gui/ "Skip this one. Couldn't even get the zip open because there were two Trojan injectors inside" - u/wavetro

i have been using this project for a long time and encouraging people to use this but it is being detected as trojan virus now i would like developers to notice this issue even if its not much of a issue for other C# developers but it is for normal end users which is preventing people like wavetro to use it to full extend.

Maxstupo commented 3 years ago

I agree that it's an issue for end users. Unfortunately not much can be done (other than compiling the source yourself, but not everyone can do that).

It seems like release v2.6.13 may have fixed the false positives. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/337b09ea865db54cea191653d5b4031232686db7b5dd4f1160cb8047caf9bef9/detection

Notaghost9997 commented 3 years ago

thanks i appreciate all your effort. Glad it is not overlooked. For now i will stick with v2.6.13 for privacy reasons