[Releasing] Apparent virus in qt downloads?

[Iikka Eklund]

We've had quite a lot "virus/trojan detected" reports lately, all of which have turned out to be false positive as far I know?


Are our hands tied here or is there any channel to report these false alarms to Avast/Symantec etc.?




Iikka Eklund
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From: Releasing <releasing-bounces+iikka.eklund=qt.io at qt-project.org> on behalf of Daniel <xracoonx at gmx.de>
Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2016 11:06:18 AM
To: Kai Koehne; releasing at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Releasing] Apparent virus in qt downloads?

Hi,

Avast just warned me again. This time for a file already installed. I
have attached a screenshot that contains the filename. I went on to do a
smart scan and avast did not detect a virus.

Best
Daniel

On 06.07.2016 09:33, Kai Koehne wrote:
> It doesn't seem to complain about the installer executable itself, but about an archive that's fetched online.
>
> Does it tell you more if you select 'Smart Scan ausführen'?
>
> Regards
>
> Kai
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Daniel [mailto:xracoonx at gmx.de]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 9:27 AM
>> To: Kai Koehne <Kai.Koehne at qt.io>; releasing at qt-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Releasing] Apparent virus in qt downloads?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Unfortunately, avast seems not provide those details in the logs. It only
>> mentions the qt online installer. I could try the download again.
>> Can I extract the information from the qt online installer somehow?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On 06.07.2016 09:19, Kai Koehne wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Would be still interesting to know which file it is complaining about ... Any
>> chance you can get the full path + maybe the m5sum of the file in question?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Kai
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Releasing [mailto:releasing-bounces+kai.koehne=qt.io at qt-
>>>> project.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 9:05 AM
>>>> To: releasing at qt-project.org
>>>> Subject: [Releasing] Apparent virus in qt downloads?
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just tried to download x86 windows 7 qt via the unified installer
>>>> but it did not succeed because of a virus warning (screenshot attached).
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>

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