Greetings, as you can see into this VirusTotal report, actually qiewer extractor version 1.0 is reported as a malware by 14 engines.
Code is present here, but old. I guess it is a false positive, anyway the program developer should contact antivirus software houses to fix this situation. Regards.
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Yesterday this report said 6 engines consider it malware, today it's 7.
Anyways, I not many people (if any) are using it, so I don't think it matters much.
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Most AV are terrible and have high false positives.
If ESET/Kaspersky both clear it, then I consider it very safe.
Anyways this seems dead, can you confirm what gui you use now?
I prefer winrar for advanced compression/decompression, but I like the shell integration of tc4shell, their TOS is sketchy though, specifying that they may distribute viruses or other malicous code, it has a very small install base, mostly Russian and it's closed source. Winrar too, is closed source, but the operator is very public and it has by far the largest install base.
7zip is good, but gui is lacking
Forks of 7zip are better offering more plugins and better guis
How can I add more containers/algorithm support to this?
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You are right, I only make very rarely changes to qiewer extractor, but that's mostly because I'm not really aware of containers/algorithms in wide use that are not supported (but it's also very possible that I missed some).
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ZSTD is far supperior to any algorithm I've tested. https://github.com/facebook/zstd
Lots of your stuff seems to be more based off of 7zip so maybe this fork would be helpful in adding zstd support. https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
Thanks for making qiewer, I like the concept of windows explorer integration. I think you're just lacking traction because of the name. Also most people also want to archive files, so an AIO would be better[needs compressing not just extracting]. I'm not a coder - can't contribute... But hopefully you can rebrand, start a patreon and get a following...
When I see "q" I think of QT based applications.
The name should make people think it integrates with the windows shell...
Sorry for getting into your business, but hope my suggestions are helpful.
Likely the false positives are low trust score - due to the lack of users w/ the software installed.
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ZSTD may be a better algorithm, but I've only included algorithms that I've actually seen somebody use, and that are zip/rar/7z for windows, and gz/bz2/xz/lz for linux.
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ZSTD is prefered for BTRFS and has just been added to F2FS. Red Had is planning to switch RPMs to ZSTD.
Anyways I understand not wanting to exert the extra effort. Sorry.
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Greetings, as you can see into this VirusTotal report, actually qiewer extractor version 1.0 is reported as a malware by 14 engines.
Code is present here, but old. I guess it is a false positive, anyway the program developer should contact antivirus software houses to fix this situation. Regards.
Yesterday this report said 6 engines consider it malware, today it's 7.
Anyways, I not many people (if any) are using it, so I don't think it matters much.
Most AV are terrible and have high false positives.
If ESET/Kaspersky both clear it, then I consider it very safe.
Anyways this seems dead, can you confirm what gui you use now?
I prefer winrar for advanced compression/decompression, but I like the shell integration of tc4shell, their TOS is sketchy though, specifying that they may distribute viruses or other malicous code, it has a very small install base, mostly Russian and it's closed source. Winrar too, is closed source, but the operator is very public and it has by far the largest install base.
7zip is good, but gui is lacking
Forks of 7zip are better offering more plugins and better guis
How can I add more containers/algorithm support to this?
Last edit: Chaython Meredith 2020-03-18
You are right, I only make very rarely changes to qiewer extractor, but that's mostly because I'm not really aware of containers/algorithms in wide use that are not supported (but it's also very possible that I missed some).
ZSTD is far supperior to any algorithm I've tested. https://github.com/facebook/zstd
Lots of your stuff seems to be more based off of 7zip so maybe this fork would be helpful in adding zstd support. https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
Thanks for making qiewer, I like the concept of windows explorer integration. I think you're just lacking traction because of the name. Also most people also want to archive files, so an AIO would be better[needs compressing not just extracting]. I'm not a coder - can't contribute... But hopefully you can rebrand, start a patreon and get a following...
When I see "q" I think of QT based applications.
The name should make people think it integrates with the windows shell...
Sorry for getting into your business, but hope my suggestions are helpful.
Likely the false positives are low trust score - due to the lack of users w/ the software installed.
ZSTD may be a better algorithm, but I've only included algorithms that I've actually seen somebody use, and that are zip/rar/7z for windows, and gz/bz2/xz/lz for linux.
ZSTD is prefered for BTRFS and has just been added to F2FS. Red Had is planning to switch RPMs to ZSTD.
Anyways I understand not wanting to exert the extra effort. Sorry.