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- Subject: Re: Lua x antivirus
- From: Florian Weimer <fw@...>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:13:17 +0200
* Enrico Colombini:
> On 12/07/2012 18.57, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
>> I got a report that some antivirus software (e.g., Symantec and McAfee)
>> are reporting the file wlua52.exe (from LuaBinaries) as a virus. Does
>> anyone know anything about that?
>
> I just sent the file (from lua-5.2.1_Win32_bin.zip) to
> virustotal. Four antiviruses seem to have an overzealous heuristic
> analysis:
> https://www.virustotal.com/file/a82364fce4c72b1b8088bc360925c9585ad49d960d0bcf6f7cbc3353cbd62066/analysis/
Try again, the count should have gone up by now.
Uploading false positives to Virustotal is not a good idea because it
triggers all kinds of automated actions, most of them geared towards
branding the file as malware.
