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abbodi1406 / vcredist

AIO Repack for latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Runtimes
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Virustotal multiple detections #71

Open naks110 opened 1 year ago

naks110 commented 1 year ago

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/5a81a849afdbc2dcd6141707aa16be654f0b8a5aaac12ee1a14ea0dec9fa789e/detection

abbodi1406 commented 1 year ago

5 unpopular out of 67 not bad for a false-positive

EmileSonneveld commented 3 months ago

Google chrome also flags it: image

werewolfprincess commented 2 months ago

Google chrome also flags it: image

That's just because it's an executable. it does the same for all .dll files.

EmileSonneveld commented 2 months ago

I rarely see this for exe files. This is a pretty shady exe that gets downloaded without a prompt:

werewolfprincess commented 2 months ago

that's strange then, I didn't get a warning from downloading the file in this repository. maybe it simply has to do with windows security settings?

abbodi1406 commented 2 months ago

I rarely see this for exe files. This is a pretty shady exe that gets downloaded without a prompt:

This has nothing to do with this repo how or where it "get" downloaded exactly?

EmileSonneveld commented 2 months ago

I retried downloading vcredist and did not get a warning. So not an issue for me anymore. I guess it was downloaded enough worldwide for chrome to trust it.

Absolucy commented 2 weeks ago

an unsigned executable (the AIO installer) that runs installers (even if the installers are signed, as the vcredist installers themselves are) will trigger lots of heuristic detections

and signing certs cost a lot of money