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Renan Hunter
I agree this is a pain, whenever I plug in my thumb drive into another computer I find Norton happily deleting files from it for me. So now I tend to disable any AV before plugging it in (a lot easier).
I dont use these softwares except for testing and vulnerabilities research. My advice is NEVER trust them. If people used a restricted user account on Windows, let the system and applications always up to date and specially, didnt open any kind of files they receive like pictures.exe (very well known social engeneering used by malware) which surely is something malicious then they wouldnt need an Antivirus since 99.9999% of the infections are the users fault and not a critical remote vulnerability that was exploited by a recently coded worm/virus .
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AVG is allowing me to choose to ignore the threat, but it still stops me from extracting the files. While I can disable the resident shield, soethign else blocks the extraciton which i cannot disable.
I extracted the files on another computer to USB key and copied them to my HD. I still got the warning message but was able to add files to the exceptions list. however if you`re not quick about it will go straight to the remove/heal popup (which i just closed- extraction is prevented but nothign happens when the files are already there.)
And when you report a False positive, what AV companies has to do is to either create a whitelist-signature which excepts the software from detection, rewrite the detecting signature (not always easy to do) or add the hash of the false positive to a exception list.
-one of the DOS files on my HD is reported as infected (which is somewhat correct as it still contains parts matching the signature), however the virus contained in it is inactive as its entry routine got overwritten by a repair tool. Quite annoying as the original is nowhere to be found anymore
I am a Windows XP user and have not run any antivirus program for years. They all caused more trouble than they were worth. How can people run these antivirus and not know this? I simply have ZoneAlarm firewall installed. I have no idea whether it is working or not, except it claims to scan any files I download.
If all anti virus, malware, trojan, adware detectors had a shared vast databased for uncompressing all archives including dos files and files from old computers. Then there would be very little positives and false positives.
I write perl scripts and turn them into executable files with perlapp. For a long time, the compression with perlapp was frankly terrible. I used upx to get a much smaller file until, you guessed it, AV companies started flagging the file as a virus. If I change the method of compression to use perlapp instead of using upx, the message went away. The script was unchanged, but apprently, just because some virus writers liked the compression they got with the free / open upx, I am now a criminal. I reported it, of course, but it keeps coming back.
I opened Immunet and changed the quarantine option from automatic to ask me. Then I copied the files inside the zip folder and put them into another folder. Problem went away. Now I can use the software like normal.
This article really reflects the reality. Small developers to gain time or for test purposes like to use open source program, for example, and the policy of the firewall or anti-virus that have been setup to control or protect the whole network (intranet) is a real barrier. Even downloading .exe files are not authorized and if ever you have a CD or DVD, you will always get an alert saying that you dont have permission to run or install the software. You need to see the Network Administrator, who is more crazy than the Firewall or Anit-virus.
Bill.., how do we know you are not employed by one of these anti-virus companies and coming here to employ a covert intelligence attack on the credibility of nirsoft? The only way real way to show you are telling the truth is to provide us your full name, address, and contact information so we can check you out for our own edification.
McAfee is the worst (or right at the top of the poo pile) in my professional experience. Trashes license files at the drop of a hat, so frequently have to resort to using my personal laptop running Eset NOD32. Never an issue (or infection) in almost eight years using it.
Some developers increase false positive detection of their software by sloppy coding, unnecessary heavy packing, sloppy attention to their dll files, and improperly registering their software with the Windows operating system. There is little need for all this. We try to make allowances for this in our AV, but when several of these are present, we will detect it as malware! Perhaps some developers need to use good coding practices, provide good documentation, and treat all components of their software as important!
As a practical suggestion, if you can identify the specific parts of your software that cause the false positive it might help to put them in separate files and probably processes, to be kept much more stable (not even re-built) than the main program. That way you might manage to cut down the reoccurrence of false positives.
I also found my harmless practise program published as a setup and downloaded got a false positive by Microsoft Security Essentials, just because it was an exe file that was being downloaded in a zip file.
It makes me wonder how sites like download.com can Download exe files with no problems and I cant.
I am a software developer. I develope softwares in vb6, vb.net, c#.
But NetProtector antivirus which is a popular (average quality) antivirus here in india detects many times my vb6 application as virus. At the same time world class antivirus products such as norton, Kaspersky, Avira, Bit defender never detect any virus. Clearly this is false positive detection.
When we complain and explain them that it is not affecting os files or customer data and it has no any harmful thing then firstly they say exclude the file from scan. When we say we have many customers there and each time it is not possible to explain and say everyone to exclude the file from scan. So you do the necessary exclusion or whatever in your antivirus program. Then they temporarily do it. But after some days same problem arises again.
So I request through this forum hoping net protector guys might be seeing this site, please get rid of such false positive detentions..
One item of note. I expected to download a single zip file into my downloads folder. To my surprise two additional files were downloaded to my Win32 folder. Unwaders and Unwaders.C!ml. My AV took particular exception to those files.
Today I tried to download nirsoft network password tool to recover a shared drive credentials. Google Chrome refused to download it. Microsoft Edge did download it. I had to disabled Norton 360 on the computer to finally get it downloaded. Network credentials revealed. All good.
HashMyFiles is a small utility that allows you to generate unique file identifiers (hashes) using a variety of popular checks. These can help determine if a file has been modified or corrupted, as well as help determine the file's reputation by submitting to the VirusTotal database for malware analysis.
Formats supported range form fast to secure with CRC32, MD5, SHA1/-256/-512/-384. The various hashing information can be saved to a report (text/HTML/XML/CSV/TSV) that includes name, path, dates, file size, version and other info.
Blows my mind how stagnate NirSoft's programs become, HashMyFiles still doesn't have a way to "Delete files to Recycle Bin" or similar. And all his programs are still plagued with DPI/multi-monitor issues years after reporting about them.
Best hasher I've seen. Drag and drop, copy and paste, or context menu interface. Great for bulk hashing. Copy a hash to the clipboard (from a website) and if it matches it will highlight green. Duplicate files highlight red. Just don't hit delete to remove files from the list. Use Clear all.
@Kermode
"I want to generate hashes for a directory save it to a file. And then later compare the files against the hashes to make sure nothing has changed - this isn't possible."
If you want to ensure files remain the same, you can do just as you suggested. First, generate hashes for a directory and save it to a file. Second, at a later time, generate the hashes again and compare them with the previous hashes. If the hash is different, the file changed.
"Also, it colors the lines of the display without an explanation of what those colors mean."
The different colors mean that those files are identical (same color, same file) - it's useful to easily see which files are identical.
"I fail to see the usefulness of this app"
This program allows you to verify that a file hasn't changed. It's commonly used to check that a downloaded file wasn't corrupted when downloading.
Some sites have the MD5 hash for their program. After you download the file, you can compare the MD5 for the download against what the site says. If it's different, your download failed or was corrupted.
@joby_toss What does that even mean?
I want to generate hashes for a directory save it to a file. And then later compare the files against the hashes to make sure nothing has changed - this isn't possible.
Also, it colors the lines of the display without an explanation of what those colors mean.
I fail to see the usefulness of this app
Love this program!
I used to use Hasher ( =1347, but when it failed to compute the hash of a movie that I downloaded (700 MB), I searched for a different program.
Not only can this program compute the hash for the movie, it's very fast, has TONS of useful options, and has awesome command-line support. I was able to easily integrate it as one of my "favorite tools" in FreeCommander ( =291, so now I can easily compute the hash for the selected files.