#23 Virus in npptor 2.6.3

[Paul E Johnson]

Sophos antivirus software reports:
Malicious Content Blocked
Location:softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge.net/project/npptor/npptor installer/
The requested location contains malicious content, identified as Mal/Generic-S and was blocked from downloading.
I'm no virus expert, but I'm warning others and asking if anybody sees same issue.

[J. Ledvina]

This seems to be a problem with the installer for 2.6.3:

VirusTotal results for 2.6.3 installer: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c3913eb1200690a31aa3fa20a73369d4a70185002c21cf10d0d56f0e9524c8eb/analysis/
21 of 49 scanners report a problem! (I've never seen so many hits!)

For 2.6.3 zipped binaries: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6df7aa080a02807232167cb186094ffe21a67fda688fafd120352387083132c3/analysis/
only 2 hit

For 2.6.2 installer: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0829e0fa607b3dd0b995e8b185c162f0daeb2d1f0c36cc5528d233d9a4c09651/analysis/
only 1 hit

I was expecting to come back here to give the standard spiel about how one anti-malware engine will often give a false positive, but this seems like it's not a fluke!

[Andrew Redd]

I'm looking into this. I'm not sure what the reason for the many hits are. There does seems to be many problems with the installer but there are also a few problems with NppToR itself. Anyone with insight as why help would be appreciated.

[Mike Amato]

I ran into a similar alert from AVG anti-virus when I tried to install 2.6.3 on my Windows 8 machine. I was able to install 2.6.2 without complaint.

[Paul E Johnson]

This problem seems to be solved now. I do not know why, either the file provided from the SF server has been cleaned somehow or the Sophos anti-virus program no longer detects the troublesome bit.