VBoxVmService-6.1-Kiwi.exe is detected by antivirus programs

[hom-mp]

Hi there,

the Virus-total check returns that 5 Antivirus-scanners marked the new VBoxVmService-6.1-Kiwi.exe as malicious. That's a big problem because McAffe and Microsoft are two of them.

Please have a look at: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ef181054002a4f11b07fe640f0da572534c5d2b6c91896f4f688965b4bb0c0d9/details

Maybe rebuilding and signing helps

[onlyfang]

Thanks @home-mp. The malicious report seems to be related to InnoSetup used to create the setup. From my point of view the package I posted to release page is pretty safe as:

• I trust InnoSetup
• I don't see any malicious issue reported on my Windows 10 machine with Virus & threat protection on.

I have no plan to purchase code signing certificate to sign the package, just to satisfy all the online scanning engines. 5 out of 71 score looks good enough to me.

With that said, this is an open source software, people can always rebuild the software on their own, and suggestions/PRs on improving this are always welcome.

[daMark-de]

I have a similar problem. GData detect a virus in Kiwi. Download and execution is blocked. Earlier versions of VBoxVmService are ok but not compatible with VirtualBox 6.1 Is there something like a preview version of the next release of VBoxVmService? I'd like to see if GData would accept this.