Created attachment 64486 [details] a screenshoot of my antivirus report Version: 2.4.3 OS: MS Windows I installed Amarok 2.4.3-3 from standalone package installer on my laptop (Win7 professional - 32 bit). My antivirus - Avira Antivir Personal reported many times of viruses within the install package. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Install amarok from win32 binaries: * (optional) install an antivirus if you don't have one * (optional) update your antivirus unless you didn't recently * go to: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download:Windows * download latest version: http://amarok.kde.org/downloads/windows/amarok-setup-2.4.3-3.exe * run it * worry if you don't get any warnings Actual Results: i got an unfunctional amarok installation Expected Results: no warnings from my active antivirus
And which exact viruses did your application detect? Or did it just give multiple warnings? Without a concrete indication it is probably simply a warning for an unknown application, nothing concrete so probably not much to worry about.
Microsoft Security Essentials\Microsoft Forefront and Symantec Norton didn't report anything, I scanned the whole installation, so I guess it's a false positive. But we should try to contact Avira or something like that, such warnings will only frighten our users.
Look at the attachment.
Hi, we had this reported before: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281582 This is really annoying and confusing to users. Use http://www.clamwin.com/ < it's Free Software ;) I did a quick search and found: http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=131204 which explains how and where to send avira a false positive. Could someone please send the affected binaries to them? I don't have them at hand and don't know exactly which versions are affected. It should not take more then 10 minutes if you have the binaries at hand.
I have contacted them and I'm waitng for a response
Yesterday Patrick told me about getting no answer and I resubmitted the binary. Today I got a response from avira, that it should not be identifed as malware anymore. Then i installed avira on a fresh computer, downloaded the kdewin package and got no positive false more.
great now symantec reports it as virus http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=b606fef7175e5fcb361a98390088f4f9532e0f12631e4964ccd52d1321597a9d-1320083138
(In reply to comment #7) > great now symantec reports it as virus > http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=b606fef7175e5fcb361a98390088f4f9532e0f12631e4964ccd52d1321597a9d-1320083138 here is the related positive form - https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/ They expect to get infos about the product from which this problem is reported.