You do know your virustotal link goes to a scan of "svchost.exe", right? If you really did name your MMF app that, the fact that it's the name of a major part of windows could trigger some scanners. Otherwise, you're looking at the wrong report...
You do know your virustotal link goes to a scan of "svchost.exe", right? If you really did name your MMF app that, the fact that it's the name of a major part of windows could trigger some scanners. Otherwise, you're looking at the wrong report...
I just uploaded a blank exe and got 2 false positives aswell.
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/113fe38c6b361e298076c60cf41d1bd672c3488b4274fc81f0 b1b41a35c21171-1264755102
Notice the name is nothing suspicious.
Wait, "Symantec"? As in "Symantec Norton Antivirus"? The most common antivirus is detecting MMF apps as false positives? Great...
Also, looking at the bottom, everything in the "Additional Information" section doesn't match the original report. Obviously Peter did link us to the wrong report
Virus Total uses 40 different engines. From Avast to Symantec, etc. I scanned a program I downloaded from here, Kung Fu 2, and one of the AV engines used, The HAcker, labeled Kung Fu 2 as Adware/Badjoke.Formatter.d.
For some reason there's something in either the headers of MMF2 generated files or something that these AV engines see as a virus/trojan/joke/etc.
For developers that haven't created a name for theirself, getting their software picked up by Symantec is a blow. Granted, most should know here that AV software is not 100% accurate, however, the average paranoid user usually believes whatever the AV companies tell them.
Edit
I downloaded and installed TGF2. I uploaded the core file, TGF2.exe. The Symantec engine labeled it as Suspicious.Insight.
So far I've seen that "Hacker" thing on VirusTotal flag every file we've scanned with it. I think it can be safely ignored. I normally use http://virusscan.jotti.org/, anyway.
EDIT: But Symantec flagging MMF files as suspicious could be a serious problem for us.
OK this is ridiculous, I installed Norton and every application I build, it flags it as a virus and deletes it. How the heck do we fix this? Someone needs to complain to these stupid anti-virus companies to fix their faulty software.
I just built an empty application and look... VIRUS! by Symantec, and 3 other scanners! Norton is used by millions of people...
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/7a39f413c9375f9752a948f0acfb2b5fb3ccf1475b73de3814 235d1f0558125b-1267488139
Maybe people should stop making virus apps with MMF2
If you're reading this and this is you ^ ...
Take the hint :P
I'm making a game, not a virus. I don't know how to make a virus...
I know you're not
I'm thinking the other people that do cause MMF2 apps to be flagged
I have never had any issues with MMF apps and I have used Avast, AVG and norton on my PC's before
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