[opensource-dev] Viewer Manager (Launcher) and AntiVirus

[Cinder Roxley]

Submit a sample to Avira so they’ll whitelist it.
https://analysis.avira.com/en/submit Bitdefender and Kaspersky don’t detect
it as a virus (and Bitdefender thinks git is malicious, so there you go.)

Further, code signing is your friend. Signed bins are much less likely to
be flagged as malicious by crappy free antivirus suites.

On September 28, 2017 at 8:47:06 AM, Niran (desmoulins.uchi at googlemail.com)
wrote:

Avira (and presumably all others) goes nuts on vmp_util.exe whenever it
appears anywhere, worse, when i configure the viewer and it downloads and
extracts the viewer manager package it immediately flags it as potentially
dangerous in such a way that said file becomes completely phased, i cannot
remove it, move it or otherwise interact with it and the configuration
fails with "permission denied" until i restart the PC. I wonder what i can
do about it, the moment i'm going to pack this thing into the Viewer
package and offer a download people will chop my head off that its infected
with Viruses.

I know AntiVirus applications are shit but i'm worried about this happening
not just to me but to basically every single user, this would be absolutely
horrible.
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