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Offline michaelis

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Virustotal flags installer as virus
« on: May 20, 2025, 01:08:21 pm »
Hi!

The file codeblocks-25.03-setup.exe for windows is flagged with Bkav Pro W32.AIDetectMalware and Ikarus Trojan.Win64.Krypt at virustotal.
Any ideas why?

Also, the file codeblocks-25.03mingw-setup.exe has a very slow download speed, some kB per second. The above mentioned one is no problem downloading.

Thank you in advance.
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Offline Михаил Агарков

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Re: Virustotal flags installer as virus
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2025, 02:25:25 pm »
VirusTotal includes 70+ AVs so there's almost always false positives.
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Offline michaelis

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Re: Virustotal flags installer as virus
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2025, 02:57:13 pm »
Could be false positives. But if there is no way of knowing then there's always a risk it isn't.
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Offline nenin

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Re: Virustotal flags installer as virus
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2025, 11:00:17 am »
Quote from: michaelis on May 20, 2025, 02:57:13 pm
Could be false positives. But if there is no way of knowing then there's always a risk it isn't.
There is a way to approach actual risk value: look at positive flag risen. If there are "heuristic" only, this is b/s .
Actually this is a long-lasting issue with MINGW. "Heuristic" is "trained" on standard soft, and all out of the standard considered as suspicious.
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