Re: EasyRSA reported as malware

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Hi,

On Thursday, 7 August 2025 at 22:28, Kenneth Porter <[email protected]> wrote:

> I tried downloading the lastest EasyRSA release from GitHub only to see
> both Firefox and Windows Defender (Win10x x64) report it as malware
> "trojan.pigyx". I downloaded it on Linux and uploaded it to VirusTotal
> and many AV's think it's malware. What's going on?
> 
> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ed0d5525f52d0c0ff29661e18b810cc510154aad890c37ed819ec64104512caa
> 
> Downloaded from here:
> 
> https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/releases/tag/v3.2.3
> 
> (I haven't used this in awhile and was about to make a new client
> config, so I figured I should grab the latest package.)
> 
> 

This is probably a false positive.

My gut feel would be the Openssl binaries that EasyRSA ships.
Either that or the Unix tools, which have been shipped for over a decade,
unchanged, have suddenly been flagged by your AV as dubious.

If your anti-virus product is really so picky then simply download and
install Openvpn for Windows and install Easy-RSA from that installer.
You need to select Easy-RSA as an extra install component. IE. Custom.

OpenVPN Download URL: https://community.openvpn.net/Downloads

If your anti-virus also complains about the Openvpn installer then
please let us know.

Regards
tct

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