Prereq dxwebsetup Sophos - "Generic ML PUA"

Open nighto opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

It's almost certainly a false positive, but when running the prereq installer, Sophos complaint about file dxwebsetup.exe with the error "Generic ML PUA". Just sharing if someone else stumbles on this error.

https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000037180?language=en_US

Jun 29 '23 13:06 nighto

The dxwebsetup included isn't digitally signed. Proper dxwebsetup is. So assuming legitimacy it predates when Microsoft was digitally signing it. And it downloads stuff from Web which is pretty trojan-like behavior without having a trust-base from a digital signature. As a download, I'd use the all-in-one file too, not an auto-downloader.

Sep 08 '24 04:09 brantgurga

And it downloads stuff from Web which is pretty trojan-like behavior without having a trust-base from a digital signature.

Also links may just die.

Sep 08 '24 07:09 vadosnaprimer