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Several Malware Engines Think This is a Trojan

Open neostryder opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

Describe the bug https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ce95fb388cc93e5ae31d3276785f1b8b37720755e6f102bc72b4932d7a2382ab

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Scan the file on VirusTotal.com

Expected behavior No malware

Screenshots Just scan it yourself

System Information: Windows 11

Additional context I had an older version installed and it suddenly began showing through AI detection in Malwarebytes, so I checked it on VirusTotal, and there were three engines that detected it. I then downloaded a fresh version (0.9) and checked with VirusTotal, and now there are 20 engines that detect it as malware. I know there can be legitimate processes in apps that are detected as malware, but 20 different providers??

neostryder avatar Jul 14 '24 16:07 neostryder

Thanks for the info, this is surely due to pyinstaller (see #38). I'll look into it, but I'm not sure I can find a quick solution...

cnovel avatar Jul 19 '24 08:07 cnovel

@neostryder yeah there's no easy fix available, this is due to pyinstaller. I'll have to investigate other methods to convert the .py to .exe, but I don't have time right now. Best thing to do is to ask the AV provider to whitelist the exe files.

cnovel avatar Jul 21 '24 09:07 cnovel

Hello @cnovel ,

I just chanced on this today and it is super amazing. I am using the GUI version and I see that it only downloads just 20 episodes of the podcast history I tried with. Is there a way to easily download more than 20 episodes? Thanks.

frankyy72 avatar Jul 06 '25 04:07 frankyy72

@frankyy72 it should download everything. Can you send the rss link so that I can investigate? Thanks.

cnovel avatar Jul 09 '25 12:07 cnovel