Apup 1.4.43 is being considered as Malware-Gen by Avast Home

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Apup 1.4.43 is being considered as Malware-Gen by Avast Home

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Dears,

Apup 1.4.43 is being considered as Malware-Gen by Avast Home. I didn't test with other anti-virus software, but I'd like to advise the developers that this is happening. Perhaps it is a false positive detection, but anyway it would be nice if you guys check your files for infections. This can happen even in the best families.

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Peter :D
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well hmm.. will look into it.

There does seem to be a few false positives. :( will look into why. I don't seem to have an infection since there is nothing else I upload for a scan showing as positive except both apup and AP show false positives. :(

So I made the appropriate submits to a few sites to have the file re-examined and declared false positive. On a side note... they all declare every single version of APUP infected with different issues.
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huh... no response as of yet.
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So I am still waiting for word from the few sites I submitted too. damn.. this is a stupid long wait time.

ohh avast no longer shows positive. Trend and dr web still do though although, they are only marked as suspicious not for sure infections.
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So I got email today.
"Your request has been analyzed. It was a false alarm. The error was fixed." <-- Dr. Web

Now I am just still waiting for Trend Micro to respond.
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I'm not sure what's involved in providing a digital signature, but it may be helpful - as far as I could tell AP has none.

I watched a malware seminar with Mark Russinovich, the dev of the sysinternals tools, he mentioned that any exe without a digital signature should be considered suspicious, most likely malware.
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Hmm... yes that does seem like the thing to go for. VB Express 2008 and up appear to provide self signing although I have not looked into them. I was going to look into it once I got it moved fully over to .NET eventually. I will probably do it much sooner now though.
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TheAPGuy wrote:VB Express 2008 and up appear to provide self signing although I have not looked into them.
I have wondered how robust an application could be developed using an express edition, what the major limitations are -> at compilation, available tools, some sort of time limit, # of frames, etc.
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