Re: Lots of False Positives?

"Kevin G. McCoy" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.distributed-net.rc5
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On 3/15/2011 12:14 PM, Oleg Protasov wrote:
> Downloaded the latest release yesterday (dnetc518-win32-x86.zip), and 
> upon extraction, McAfee popped up with a Trojan alert. Not a big deal, 
> happens sometimes these false positives do.

Which file in the distribution?

Most virus detectors tag the dnet SCR screen saver file as a Trojan. 
Periodically, they flag dnetc.exe as one too.

Might be time to do another letter writing campaign to the AV vendors. 
"No, Dnet is not a virus/trojan... Thousands of us run it willingly"

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Best regards,

Kevin G. McCoy

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