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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
ugh you are asking us to explain why opaque closed source programs that constantly change their behavior silently with auto-updates int he background behave the way they do.. .
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No, I am asking for a better explanation than "let's all shoot the messenger", all 16 of them
16 presumably independent, companies have scanning engines which say this specific program looks suspicious , but thousands of other programs are fine . Surely it's better to delve into what is it they find suspicious than to call them all rubbish products which should always be disbelieved.
AV there to warn us. If we don't look into the warnings when given, why bother to ever use them ?
And if you are being serious, not rhetorical, when you say "why don't you ask them for an explanation " then surely the program author is best placed to initiate that dialog. Not someone like me who can only say to each of the 16: " your AV finds nothing wrong with my install but there are these guys on a message board who say different"
Look, if just one or maybe two AV were reporting this I would think false positives, again, shut up and move on. But 16 is different.