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phaselden / FlipIt

Flip Clock screensaver
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
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Flagged as virus #16

Closed mattmoody05 closed 3 years ago

mattmoody05 commented 3 years ago

I have complete confidence that this project is not a virus, but windows10 is convinced that it is. I have downloaded the Flipit.scr file from the 1.3 release and windows has flagged it as a virus. Not sure if this is anything you can solve, but I thought it would be good for you to know. Still, looks awesome :) image

SmilerRyan commented 3 years ago

I have re-scanned this file on VirusTotal (Results are here) and it appears not to be detected by any engine, including Microsoft. Is this the only AntiVirus engine you use? Please respond with ant additional information you have about the detection.

My Google Chrome mentions about the file not being commonly downloaded, but does not mention about it being malicious.

mattmoody05 commented 3 years ago

Hi, sorry to take more of your time. Here is the Windows Security "Threat blocked" info image

edeao commented 3 years ago

Hi community, dear developer,

THX for the great work!! I am also completly confident that this is not a virus, but Win10 version 20H2 thinks otherwise. I also attachted a screenshot. Screensaver was running perfect for two days, than windows blocked it. I had to unblock it, even to download it. Copied it in the folder again an now it works just fine again.

Unbenannt

Hope you can fix this issue and thanks again for the great work. Hope you get the recognition you derserve!!

redburn commented 3 years ago

I don't get the virus alert myself on Windows 10, but have nevertheless reported it to Microsoft as a false positive.

Usually they'll clear it within 24 hours.

Can you make sure your virus definitions are up to date? I'm currently at 1.331.903.0.

redburn commented 3 years ago

Analyst comments:

We have removed the detection. Please follow the steps below to clear cached detection and obtain the latest malware definitions.

  1. Open command prompt as administrator and change directory to c:\Program Files\Windows Defender
  2. Run “MpCmdRun.exe -removedefinitions -dynamicsignatures”
  3. Run "MpCmdRun.exe -SignatureUpdate"

Alternatively, the latest definition is available for download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/definitions

Third time it's happened with this screensaver, and every time it's a different detection. Wonder what keeps tripping them.

Anyway, should be cleared now.

If anyone's wondering, you can submit these false positives to Microsoft here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission