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Binary websocat.x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.exe version v1.11.0 is flagged as a virus

Open cosminvlad opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Firefox, Chrome and Windows Defender are marking this binary as a virus.

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cosminvlad avatar Nov 04 '22 12:11 cosminvlad

Is it a false positive or my cross-compilation toolchain is indeed producing infected executables?

vi avatar Nov 04 '22 13:11 vi

VirusTotal also reports numerous detections when I upload the file to it, in contrast with zero with version v1.10.0. It also reports some detections with 32-bit versions, both v1.10 and v1.11.

vi avatar Nov 04 '22 13:11 vi

Compiled again and uploaded again as websocat_rebuild.x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.exe, which scores less detections.

vi avatar Nov 04 '22 14:11 vi