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vi / websocat

Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl) for ws:// with advanced socat-like functions
MIT License
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Binary websocat.x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.exe version v1.11.0 is flagged as a virus #172

Open cosminvlad opened 2 years ago

cosminvlad commented 2 years ago

Firefox, Chrome and Windows Defender are marking this binary as a virus.

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vi commented 2 years ago

Is it a false positive or my cross-compilation toolchain is indeed producing infected executables?

vi commented 2 years ago

VirusTotal also reports numerous detections when I upload the file to it, in contrast with zero with version v1.10.0. It also reports some detections with 32-bit versions, both v1.10 and v1.11.

vi commented 2 years ago

Compiled again and uploaded again as websocat_rebuild.x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.exe, which scores less detections.