2.095 and antivirus

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:59:57AM +0000, Ivan Kazmenko via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The site virustotal.com doesn't like the new 2.095.0 release for
> Windows: three engines find a threat in "rdmd.exe" file in the 7z
> archive.  One engine finds BScope.TrojanRansom.Encoder in it, and two
> others find Hacktool.Win32.Krasnoglaz.Gena.  The latter is new:
> detected in 2.095.0-rc1 version, but not in 2.094.2 release.  One
> engine detects a threat in some other executables from the archive as
> well.
> 
> Note: when given the whole 7-zip archive, some of the engines time
> out, so it's best to upload and check the ".exe" files separately.
> 
> What's the next thing to do here?  Obviously, I'd like the release to
> not contain threats (or false alarms), so that we can feel safe about
> installing dmd on servers and such.
[...]

I'm 99.9% sure that these are false positives. We've had this problem in
the past. It would be nice if someone filed false-positive reports for
these cases to virustotal.com so that this problem can be corrected.


T

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