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portapps / discord-portable

🚀 Discord portable for Windows
https://portapps.io/app/discord-portable/
MIT License
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McAfee detects virus #46

Closed git-nico closed 4 years ago

git-nico commented 4 years ago

Would love to use your portable apps but I cant use the latest version because McAfee thinks it contains a virus. Version 0.0.305 does not have that issue. I hope something can be done about it. I have similar issues with brave-portable. discord-virus-detectie

crazy-max commented 4 years ago

@git-nico Sometimes Antivirus scanner reports that a program is infected with a Virus or Trojan, even when the program is not really infected with any malicious code. This kind of problem is known as "False Positive". In other words, Antivirus companies cause a big headache to small developers.

As stipulated in the FAQ, those detections are generic. Most likely based on a heuristic detection and more prone to be false-positive and this happens quite often with programs written in Golang. The best you can do is to report this to your Antivirus software vendor as a false positive.

See also portapps/portapps#68 and https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aportapps+antivirus&type=Issues. Thanks for your support.