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Issue in security check [message #2238]

Tue, 16 July 2024 07:46

takumi
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Registered: July 2024

Junior Member

When I check the security of a downloaded file with VirusTotal to use DW in my company, 'Threat categories: trojan' is displayed. What could be the cause?

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Re: Issue in security check [message #2244 is a reply to message #2238]

Mon, 22 July 2024 16:26

thomas
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Registered: June 2014

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I can only speculate that VirusTotal wrongly believes to recognize a known trojan, because a pattern or byte sequence within DataWarrior.exe is similar to an entry of a table of known patterns. Or it considers using one of the system calls, which DataWarrior.exe needs to to to launch the main program, could be used for harmful purposes. Finally, I don't know...

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