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aporto / mariamole

MariaMole: An alternative Arduino IDE
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Win32:malware-gen Virus detected. Avast Antivirus #53

Open lacky95 opened 5 years ago

lacky95 commented 5 years ago

Does anybody know why my antivirus program find a virus in MariaMole_Installer.exe? I downloaded the version 0.7.20.

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aporto commented 5 years ago

I have absolutelly no idea why is this happening. I had this report once, but the installer was hosted on SourceForge. I thought it was a security flaw on this site, so I recompiled the installer and moved it to GitHub, and now you have the same problem. It seems to be a false positive on this particular anti-virus

I just tested the installer with two online antivirus and they didn't find anything (Below). I'd recommend compiling it from source on your computer and checking it again with the AV

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