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Metatogger flaged as malware #2

Closed eitancaspi closed 3 months ago

eitancaspi commented 5 months ago

2024-06-01 16_24_55-Notification - ESET NOD32 Antivirus 2024-06-01 16_31_11-Downloads

eitancaspi commented 5 months ago

Hello,

I downloaded https://www.luminescence-software.org/download/metatogger/Metatogger-Installer.exe and when I tried to run it - my ESET NOD32 blocked the run, twice, each time with different warnings.

See attached and also the following links.

https://metatogger.en.lo4d.com/virus-malware-tests

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bc412fc0b379e9c443eea2cc30b2a9b30bb2f5ac818ee0efa32a7eba3e0afb04/detection/f-bc412fc0b379e9c443eea2cc30b2a9b30bb2f5ac818ee0efa32a7eba3e0afb04-1714014630

How to ask ESET to clear this https://support.eset.com/en/kb141-submit-a-virus-website-or-potential-false-positive-sample-to-the-eset-lab#SubmitFile

CyberSinh commented 5 months ago

Hello,

Since Metatogger is no longer electronically signed, some antivirus programs (often the least powerful) consider it suspicious and block it.

These are false alerts that users can safely ignore.

I'm surprised that Eset NOD32 blocks Metatogger, as this antivirus does indeed consider Metatogger healthy on VirusTotal.

Unfortunately, I can't contact these antivirus publishers every time I release an update to inform them of the false positive.