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davidrg / ckwin

Kermit 95 (C-Kermit for Windows) - scriptable internet and serial communications with terminal emulation
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ckw-b4.zip flagged as virus #168

Open cleeus opened 1 year ago

cleeus commented 1 year ago

Hello David,

the B4 release.zip is consistently flagged as a virus on multiple virus scanners. Virus scanner is complaining about iksdsvc.exe. Could you maybe tag a new build?

Btw, here is the virus total scanner output: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/573dda9df35d4678d7beb736b465349a2c2bec0400d3cf4ce655f0bb299360d7

johnsonjh commented 1 year ago

I’ve seen this before too myself - on even the simplest “Hello World” program built with some MSVC versions. I see it’s been reported:

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davidrg commented 1 year ago

Yeah, its a false positive. I put a fresh Visual C++ 14.2 build straight from the github build servers through virustotal with similar (though not as many) results: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/856a048aff6fd14f817f082247bdbe4c11428015ac0667a7a390040de3cba60e

This is the main reason the builds for modern windows doesn't include ctl3dins.exe (aside from it not being necessary there) - it kept tripping up my own virus scanner whenever I downloaded a build from github.

Not sure what, if anything, can really be done about it. I assume in this case the virus scanners are just reacting to the capabilities C-Kermit has - making and receiving network connections, transferring files, running as a service, etc.