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jely2002 / youtube-dl-gui

A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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virus total flagging as trojan #412

Open sponge99 opened 2 years ago

sponge99 commented 2 years ago

i wanted to try out the portable, but why when i upload to virus total it says it is flagged with a trojan virus? i have not seen this in previous versions, does anyone know why this would be flagged?

strandline commented 2 years ago

This is suspicious but might be a false positive; I would wait for the developer to update. I downloaded the Windows installer package from the website. Bitdefender Scan does not flag the install package, but the software produced a "corrupt binaries, restart and disable antivirus" message when I started it. An install from the Windows Store works without issues.

SimonRosen173 commented 2 years ago

There is definitely something super dodgy about this software. I downloaded it and after trying to download the first video it errored with the message "Error! Binaries missing/corrupted. Please restart the app and disable antivirus." This software is most likely malware.

agi-dude commented 7 months ago

I looked through the source code, and I can assure you that this is not malware.