I still believe that most of the malware and viruses out there were developed by the anti-virus companies in order to create a need for their product, and these false reports on safe software accomplish the same thing without the risk of them being caught red handed of the old method of creating the viruses themselves. The WS.Reputation.1 detection indicates a suspicious file and not a traditional anti-virus/malware detection. They wouldn't like it at all I am sure, and would want to sue me, even though the statement is the truth. Would it be okay for me to advertise that their anti-virus software is a scam? it damages the reputation of the product and has a negative effect on its future sales.Įveryone else has to pay for their mistakes, and they should too, especially when their mistake not only causes financial losses to the developer of the software, but also denies the user access to the software they need. Telling consumers that a product is not safe to use when in fact it is no threat at all, is more than misleading. Well, if there is no trojan (and I know there is not), then they should be held responsible for the lie. Not an antivirus thing, but I would also disable windows indexing service. Make sure you add eclipse.exe too, or make eclipse start as a java.exe process, there is info on how to do that in some question here too. A lot of legitimate files will match this reputation profile at some point in their lives. 1 you can also exclude from scanning java.exe. I have this issue with quite some other software as well including own developed things." As you said, that detection is based purely on a files reputation, which can tell you if its particular usage and distribution patterns match those frequently seen with malware. Which does according to the description of this identification, is beyond the traditional signatures and behaviour-based detection, it uses a reputation-based system which polls individuals. Executable files without a digital signature are at risk of being identified as unknown. One of the most important factors in building a positive file reputation is to check its digital signature. Quote: "Those anti virus heuristics often go insane. Symantec identifies DLLs in the /bin directory as 'WS.Reputation.1'. Step 1 Using Digital Signatures One of the easiest ways to identify that a file is good is to know where it came from and who created it.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |