Re: McAfee detects Trojan in latest SmartmonTools

Hi Christian,
Thanks for the feedback. Hope that is solved with McAfee soon.

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Franke [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Montag, 25. April 2016 07:41
To: Feustle, Robert (GE Germany)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] McAfee detects Trojan in latest SmartmonTools

Feustle, Robert (GE Germany) wrote:
>
> Hi Support,
>
> Please, do you know if there is really a Trojan included in 
> Smartmontools or it is just a false positive?
>

If it is the *original* file from a Sourceforce mirror it is likely a false positive.

Note that all Windows releases of smartmontools are built with MinGW and NSIS cross-compilers under Linux. Same for our daily builds at builds.smartmontools.org.

The first scan done before release:
https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/006586dbb7375d45d3caf18d17b69a724dd7719a3fecc37240645d40a7e2b703/analysis/1433436325/

McAfee GW Editions appeared here:
https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/006586dbb7375d45d3caf18d17b69a724dd7719a3fecc37240645d40a7e2b703/analysis/1443528893/
https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/006586dbb7375d45d3caf18d17b69a724dd7719a3fecc37240645d40a7e2b703/analysis/1444917548/

> Could you get in touch with McAfee on this?
>

Possibly. McAfee was not very responsive last time I tried.

Thanks,
Christian


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