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McAfee Virus Scan thinks there's a problem -- #168

Closed aabatpurdue closed 5 years ago

aabatpurdue commented 5 years ago 
5/28/2019   5:09:22 AM  "D:\Users\Public\Downloads\wsltty-3.0.1-install.exe"    "Real Protect-EC!57932D202662"  "1"

Log entry from McAfee Small Business Security Suite. False positive? Have similar entry for 3.0.0 but missed seeing it until now (:@{).

-- Thanks, -- aabatpurdue

GranoblasticMan commented 5 years ago

I'm assuming it's a false positive; VirusTotal's been showing detections for pretty much all versions of wsltty from what I can tell. Here's the current 3.0.1:

https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/9ed94b1fdbadb7e2c0318f432a33e725a16beb4bae2252445c92888e362cdf09/detection

aabatpurdue commented 5 years ago

@GranoblasticMan Actually, the VirusTotal listing is not necessarily complete as it does not include a negative reference for my variant of McAfee Virus Scan.

GranoblasticMan commented 5 years ago

A good point to bring up with VirusTotal, as more variety certainly helps! However, in this case, I think wsltty is safe enough, considering the few warnings that pop up are pretty generic.

GranoblasticMan commented 5 years ago

That being said, I can't blame anyone for being cautious, of course.

aabatpurdue commented 5 years ago

Ah, I had to cheat to get 3.0.1.2 installed - turn off McAfee, download, install, restart McAfee. Did not find any whitelist but did find an "exclude" so that McAfee keeps its paws off.

Enough breath on this - closing.