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- November 20, 2019 at 5:28 pm
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DOA
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I thought it might be useful to begin a thread on false positives. Here’s one… QOwnNotes… responsible developer, frequently updated.

Got this today…

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- November 20, 2019 at 6:38 pm
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Simple DNSCrypt update to v0.7

This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by DOA.

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- November 21, 2019 at 2:12 am
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Telos: Simple DNSCrypt update to v0.7

Yes, well. It is a .bat, so one black mark… Actually that’s an automatic deal-breaker for me. And then there’s the hex string in braces: is that a registry key? Second black mark 🙁

I’m assuming this was part of a Task Scheduler script, but I admit it’s only a guess as no evidence has been provided.

I threw out Zemana Free for using a–sort of–similar update methodology. Responsible devs don’t use inconsistent file paths/names, known malware vectors like .bat, or registry keys.

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- November 22, 2019 at 6:57 pm
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Ant Download Manager…

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- November 24, 2019 at 2:50 am
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VideoRedo TVSuite v6 installer…

Just FYI… WhiteList Cloud scans are quite slow… 20-30 seconds… some I skip due to scan delay.

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