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Running 64-Bit Windows Installer triggers ransomware warning with Trend Micro #67

Open copiousopioids opened 6 years ago

copiousopioids commented 6 years ago

When running swipl-w64-761.exe, Trend Micro blocks the program and gives a ransomware warning as well as a behavior monitoring warning. Should I be worried?

JanWielemaker commented 6 years ago

If you downloaded it from swi-prolog.org and if you are suspicious of your connection verified the hash, you should be fine. SWI-Prolog for Windows is built on a pretty isolated Linux machine by cross-compilation. That is a fairly hostile environment for Windows malware. The software is also checked by softpedia (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Coding-languages-Compilers/SWI-Prolog.shtml)

Once I got a link to an online viruschecking site that displayed the result for many virus and malware checkers. There are almost always a few that give false alarm. That is what you get if there are so many virusses and malwars that all come with a fingerprint ...