VirusTotal detects MMF apps as virus

[Peter013]

What the heck?

I had a friend today accuse me of sending him a virus when I sent a simple copy of my game.

I did a test of a blank MMF stand alone and it still shows up as AdWare!! Obviously this is a false positive but it ruins MMF's reputation.

VirusTotal Report

[DavidN]

It does. Report false positives like this to the respective anti-virus companies - that's the only way to get rid of these.

[Dynasoft]

Either that, or you do actually have that virus and it's infecting every MMF app you make.

A false positive is much more likely.

[Peter013]

Yea its the junk little virus scanners too. All the legit ones don't do it.

[Attus]

erm...are you trying to develop a virus? :p

[James]

Yes, and the virus scanner magically knows that!

[dragonguy]

erm...are you trying to develop a virus? :p

It said Adware not Virus, not the same thing but he could be trying to develop Adware, I don't know what he's doing. My advice for our Canadish friend here is to get AVG Free, Iv'e never had any real problems with it.

[Dynasoft]

[...] get AVG Free, Iv'e never had any real problems with it.

I have
I switched to Avast home (it's free but you have to register)

[Peter013]

I scanned a blank application for this test. I'm not making adware anything. I simply made a new app and built it as stand alone. Then I submitted it online to VirusTotal. It reported it as Adware and Joke something.

You guys can try it too. Just build a blank app and upload it to VirusTotal. It detects it as a virus... why? I don't know.

[variant]

Try it in MMF HWA version.

See if that makes a difference.

-Variant