ValdikSS / GoodbyeDPI

GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)
https://ntc.party/c/community-software/goodbyedpi
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Virus? #376

Closed qo4on closed 1 month ago

qo4on commented 1 month ago

Operating system / операционная система

Windows 10 20H2

Running as service / Запуск программы как сервис

I run it as a regular program / Запускаю программу обычным образом

Describe the bug / Опишите ошибку программы

Why does virustotal.com find so many viruses here? https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/00a2f8b99cd817f8c7fc4c449033015f039d18af213de78cb66bf202277c0628 image

Additional information / Дополнительная информация

No response

awgv commented 1 month ago

@qo4on Information on VirusTotal is not a guarantee—you end up with malicious software being flagged as clean and vice versa. In fact, it’s pretty trivial to fool. The reason VirusTotal false-flagged GoodbyeDPI specifically is because it uses WinDivert (hinted at on your screenshot), which is an open-source packet manipulation driver that can absolutely be used for malicious purposes (note the ESET-NOD32 comment), even though it’s not malicious itself. It does make some sense to assume something that can intercept packets to be malicious, but then again, a lot of legitimate software manipulates packets, as well as uses WinDivert.

What’s important to understand is that GoodbyeDPI is pretty old at this point (as far as I can remember, it will be 10 years in 2027) and has thousands of technically inclined users across the globe that run it as a daily driver—if it had malicious code, it would’ve been found, and this repository would’ve been hidden by GitHub, which also does at least a good enough job to prevent malware on the platform.

Not to mention the fact that the maintainer is well-known and reliable, but you’ll have to trust me on that.

ValdikSS commented 1 month ago

That's false positive for WinDivert driver. If you want it removed, you need to contact these antivirus vendors and report for false positive.