Re: Lots of False Positives?

Oleg Protasov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.distributed-net.rc5
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I used the following download link:
http://http.distributed.net/pub/dcti/current-client/dnetc-win32-x86.zip
And the file that McAfee flagged on my PC was dnetc.com
It was at that point I uploaded the entire zip file to Virus Total and got the results previously mentioned.


Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:39:25 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: rc5-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected]
Subject: Re: [RC5] Lots of False Positives?



  


    
  
  
    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"

    -- 

Best regards,

Kevin G. McCoy
  


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