Release 3.3.0 flagged as malicious

mintty / wsltty

Mintty as a terminal for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows / WSL

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Release 3.3.0 flagged as malicious #252

Closed bgiard closed 4 years ago

bgiard commented 4 years ago

Released file wsltty-3.3.0-install-x86_64.exe is flagged as malicious by some anti-virus software. See the VirusTotal report for instance. What's happening here?

Edit, same goes for 3.2.0.

mintty commented 4 years ago

The installer was produced the same way as for previous releases. This is something that happens now and then for uncertified installers, see #168, #94, #74, #32, #31, #28. I see no generic way to handle this problem. You are welcome to install from sources as mentioned in https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/#installation-from-source-repository.

bgiard commented 4 years ago

Thanks, will try to do that. Just realized the Cygwin setup gets flagged as well. Probably for the same reasons.

mintty commented 4 years ago

I have added details about a minimal cygwin installation for that purpose to the project page.