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stay away from PuTTY!! Antiviruses detected that their .exe was infected, and they solved it by removing the detection on the antiviruses > 2015-04-19 PuTTY d
by _lce0 11y ago
stay away from PuTTY!!
Antiviruses detected that their .exe was infected, and they solved it by removing the detection on the antiviruses
> 2015-04-19 PuTTY detected as malware
> We've had several reports recently of anti-virus software reporting PuTTY as malware (under a wide variety of names, often generic). This affects the latest release (0.64) and also the development snapshots (particularly puttygen).
> We believe these are false positives. In those cases where we've been able to contact the vendor (McAfee, Symantec, ClamAV), they have removed the detection.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
- troels 11y agoI read that as "the av vendors have removed the false positive". E.g. they fixed their wrong. What lead you to a different interpretation?
- asherkin 11y agoWhat were they meant to do? The AV vendor only corrects the detection after verifying that it is a false-positive themselves presumably. We've had false-positive AV detections a few times in the last couple years affect an open-source project I'm involved in, it is a massive support burden. What would you suggest a developer do other than contact the AV vendor to get it sorted out, since they caused the false detection?