#28 Malware detected in version 20200404

[Sunny Pham]

Dear Developer,

Your latest Imdisk version 20200404 and the last few versions contain malware. I ran a virus scan at virustotal.com and 4 engines detected as malware in your setup file. Please look into this issue and get rid of the malware. I'm not confident in installing your software into my pc nor recommending it to my friends and family members.

Another issue is your software compatibility. Disk Management in Win10 cannot detect the ramdisk created by Imdisk and so are few other software or apps out there. You can see this bug by opening up Disk Management in Win10 and look for the ramdisk, it doesn't shows up anywhere. Please fix this bug and compatibility issue. You can also learn from Primo Ramdisk which is the best ramdisk software out there. However, it is very expensive and most people cannot afford it. Therefore, they have to use opensource software such as Imdisk and others. Do your test trial with Primo Ramdisk and learn something from them so you can get some ideas on how to make your software better.

I'm not advertising another software here. I just want to help make your software better.

Thank You,

Sunny

[v77]

Dear User,

I ran a virus scan at virustotal.com and 4 engines detected as malware in your setup file.

And 68 detected it as clean. You should read the last discussions on this subject. Take a look at that:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/56082b4c590e97a3ee05852d8ff260c26cd71644a240ffcc0921918a7c394ee1/detection
This was for the version 20200402. 23/72: believe it or not, they are all false positives. This number was much lower when I uploaded this version.
I submit every release to VirusTotal, even most test builds. I never got 0 alerts, even for the 64-bit version (64-bit executables are usually less flagged).

Even if I give some reasons in the discussion section, explaining everything about this situation would be boring for the readers.
So for now, it's your choice: trust a closed source antivirus, or an open source software.
That said, it's still an issue, even if it has nothing to do with my code. And that's why I am thinking of another way to release this software.

You can see this bug by opening up Disk Management in Win10 and look for the ramdisk, it doesn't shows up anywhere.

There is no bug here. ImDisk, as its name does not say it, does not emulate physical disk but only creates volumes. If you really need a full disk emulation, handled by the disk manager, you can take a look at Arsenal Image Mounter (from the same author as the imdisk driver):
https://github.com/ArsenalRecon/Arsenal-Image-Mounter

[morpheo]

The problem with these false positives is that ImDisk (at least on my end) can't be installed with chocolatey. It's rather a shame.