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TASEmulators / BizHawk

BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.
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virus #590

Closed colt05 closed 8 years ago

colt05 commented 8 years ago

Hello. I am trying to download http://www.redscientist.com/#/rtcorruptormod (RTC). I scan the file with Webroot, and it detects a virus. It seems it has something to do with the ROM loading? Is there a fixed version? Thanks!

zeromus commented 8 years ago

We don't make real-time corruptor mod. When reporting a virus in a URL, include the URL. There are no viruses in any files we distribute. Virus scanners have false positives all the time. Check it at virustotal.com

colt05 commented 8 years ago

Virustotal reports a virus. I know you don't make the corrupter mod, but webroot there's a dll in bizhawk that has the virus.

zeromus commented 8 years ago

Virus total doesn't "report a virus", virustotal tells you X out of Y virus scanners report a virus. You still didn't say which URL, you can't even be bothered to say which DLL, and not only did we not make the corruptor mod, we didnt make whichever archive you downloaded (and I dont know which archive it is)

DerekTurtleRoe commented 8 years ago

@colt05 It should also be noted that Webroot is not the most accurate example of a decent security application. It has been compared against other security solutions before, and it often loses by a pretty wide margin.

Since BizHawk is mostly DLL files, it doesn't surprise me that one of them comes up as a virus, being that an entire emulator can fit in a DLL file. Libretro gets falsely reported all the time.

I would email the Webroot team and tell them they are getting false positives on BizHawk files.

zeromus commented 8 years ago

we may have accidentally made some releases with upx'd files. don't expect anybody who false positives upx'd files to ever stop false positiving upx'd files, theyre well aware of it. But the dude doesnt say which files were false positives, so.... i dunno

DerekTurtleRoe commented 8 years ago

@zeromus Regardless, it isn't something we can solve on our end, so no need for us to worry about it. :smiley:

colt05 commented 8 years ago

oh ok. I will notify webroot.