Avira Antivir falsely reports a virus in 0.4.19

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So I downloaded and tryed to open the installer of the musictracker 0.4.19
and a viruswarning from avira antivirus came up: 
http://upl.photosphere.nl/musictrackerwtf.PNG

Pidgin (2.5.7) itself was closed, and I had WMP running on Windows XP.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andree...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2009 at 12:30

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Hmm... the Windows binaries are cross-compiled and uploaded from Linux, so it 
would
be pretty unusual for them to pick up a Windows virus.  But I'll look into it...

Original comment by b152fee4...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2009 at 1:46

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Confirming with avira too.

Original comment by baptist...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2009 at 2:44

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This seems specific to Avira and this appears to be heuristic check giving a 
false
positive.

Please submit the file to Avira.

Original comment by b152fee4...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2009 at 12:34

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Avira no longer reports it.

Original comment by zhaobot...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2009 at 9:10

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Confirming with Avira.

Original comment by syni...@gmail.com on 18 Jul 2009 at 7:18

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@synista: please update your antivirus software.  If it still reports 
musictracker as
infected, please submit the file to them for clarification and so they can fix 
it.

Only Avira reports this and I can find nothing wrong with the file, so I 
believe it
is a false positive in their heurstic check.

Original comment by b152fee4...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2009 at 1:16

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No more reports, hopefully this means Avira have fixed their heuristics :-)

Original comment by b152fee4...@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2010 at 6:05

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