Antivirus flags dpScreenOCR as malware

danpla / dpscreenocr

Program to recognize text on screen

https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/

zlib License

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Antivirus flags dpScreenOCR as malware #24

Open Lakuma3 opened 1 year ago

Lakuma3 commented 1 year ago

I just upgraded to 1.30 and Malwarebytes is flagging it as malware:

https://imgur.com/a/JLdKFMN

-Blocked Malware Details- File: 1 MachineLearning/Anomalous.94%, C:\Program Files (x86)\dpScreenOCR\dpscreenocr.exe, Quarantined, 0, 392687, 1.0.63270, , shuriken, , 7A97F31B2DC40CFC17A36D015C311E30, 89CF93609749445DB72798C62731B3611525E7BAFA1872E3A9AC825720D03451

danpla commented 1 year ago

I'm sure it's a false-positive: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e31f8a4967fd1aa8d110bf965ae02f02d9a91e8c2a405f54c7c8ac8775d3cc03 (same with the installer)

This is a known issue (see, e.g. #20): every time I release a new version, one of the antiviruses on VirusTotal gives a false-positive. I tried to send them reports, but developers seems to just add a file hash to the list of exceptions, so the problem pops up again once the next release comes out. Unfortunately, I cannot help here.