I cannot blame them for thinking that, because the Antivirus really tell them that there is an infection. These messages are sent by users that really think that my tools are infected. “your ProduKey is a Trojan, be ashamed !” “You have Trojan horse in your Mail PassView utility” “Your mspass.exe is infected with Virus”.Here’s some examples of messages regarding the virus alerts, that I get to my inbox on daily basis: In the past, their psexec.exe tool that can be used to execute code on remote machine, was detected as Virus by some Antivirus programs, but today, when SysInternals is a part of Microsoft, All Antiviruses show it’s clean, asĮxamples for emails I receive on daily basis After all, antivirus companies know that Large companies have good lawyers and if they won’t fix the problem, they may find themselves in a large lawsuit for libel. Large companies usually don’t have any false positives problems, and even if there is a single case of false alert, the antivirus company will probably fix it very soon. What about large companies like Microsoft ? UPX False Positives – Kaspersky Lab Forum: User complains in Kaspersky forums about False Positives of tools compressed with UPX.They also added a commend to this post, it’s recommended to read it too. You can read about that here and also here. RJL Software (Updated on 21/05) – Their programs are constantly detected as “Joke program”.It’s time to do something about these AutoHotkey antivirus false positivesĪn open letter for Antiviral software companies Users of AutoHotKey constantly complains about false alerts from antivirus programs. AutoHotKey – Open source utility for creating mouse/keyboard macros.PortableApps is a great open source tool containing portable software package to run from USB flash drive, but also have some False Positive problems:.UBCD4Win – a great freeware Windows boot cd containing multiple tools that some of them are detected as malware:.Other small developers also constantly experience false alerts made by Antivirus software, here some examples: Other developers also have “False Positive” problems Some other tools, like ProduKey, RegScanner, WebVideoCap, NirCmd, and others that don’t recover any password, are still constantly targeted by Antivirus companies, without any known reason. My password-recovery utilities are not the only victims of the “over protection” made by Antivirus software. I must say that some Antivirus companies are a little more gentle, and classify these tools as “Security Threat” or “Riskware” which is much better than classifying them as Virus or Trojan, but they still prevent the user from running them – by deleting them or by putting them in quarantine.Īlso, many users don’t know what is difference between Virus and Riskware, and when they get these “Riskware” alerts, they still think that my tools are infected with a Virus named “Riskware”. Antivirus companies don’t care that they block their own customers that want to recover their own passwords, and they don’t care that they may cause their customer to think that I’m a Virus distributer. If it’s a tool that can be used by bad guys, it’s classified as Trojan or Virus, even when most users need it and use it for good purposes. The attitude of many Antivirus companies is very tough in this subject – These password tools, like many other utilities out there, can also be used by hackers for bad purposes. One good example for that is my own password recovery tools: Most people need these tools to recover their own lost password. Unfortunately, most Antivirus companies goes too far with their Virus/Trojan protection, and in many times they classify completely legit software as Virus/Trojan infection.

Antivirus is essential tool that most people need to protect their Windows operating system from Viruses, Trojans, and other bad stuff.

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