Avira reports SPR/ANDR.SMSreg.GE.Gen has been detected in Yaaic

pocmo / Yaaic

Yaaic (Yet Another Android IRC Client) is as the name already says an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Android devices.

http://www.yaaic.org

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Avira reports SPR/ANDR.SMSreg.GE.Gen has been detected in Yaaic #210

Open Mr-Kumar-Abhishek opened 8 years ago

Mr-Kumar-Abhishek commented 8 years ago

Avira for Android reports Yaaic as a "Riskware":

pkg.apk

SPR/ANDR.SMSreg.GE.Gen has been detected

Probably a false positive by Avira, but anyone could confirm this ?

jcanfield commented 8 years ago

I have yet to confirm this either and Kaspersky Antivirus detects this and Hermes IRC (a fork) as Riskware as well.

Can any developers on this project confirm?

pocmo commented 8 years ago

Unfortunately this has happened quite often in the past. Some (bad) heuristics seem to think IRC or PircBot are indicators for malware.

VirusTotal seems to be a nice tool to run a variety of virus scanners on an APK. I was thinking about testing whether renaming the library/package can help avoiding those false positives.

pocmo commented 8 years ago

After commit 53a921b AVG is the last scanner with a false positive: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/17d34b0c278f86fb28b9cbe8e43d4b7265298d949961e117cf257bf34891c28a/analysis/1459880897/

knight-ryu12 commented 8 years ago

PircBot is Java IRCBot framework...