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There are hundreds of false positive made with NSIS. This page contains a list of some of them.
There are hundreds of false positive made with NSIS. This page contains a list of some of them.


== NSIS Virus Checker False Positives ==
Very nice post, good luck! ;-)
This information is collected from [http://forums.winamp.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=65 NSIS forum], simply by searching for "virus". Now updated on a regular basis!<br>
 
'''Bolded entries are still detected by the AV!'''
# Sunbelt - Dec 9, 2009 (see Virustotal results from [http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/786b5087c0a506007d634cda09045b5ffb52897dccd9f47861bf2b7595a6e24d-1260395329 Dec 9, 2009], [http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/786b5087c0a506007d634cda09045b5ffb52897dccd9f47861bf2b7595a6e24d-1261471025 Dec 22, 2009])
# '''McAfee VirusScan''' (DAT Version 5797) - Nov 9, 2009
# Sunbelt - June 5, 2009 (see Virustotal results from [http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/1489ef6ec4476b096d8cfd389bce95267fc8fff51bb958915843d2c7214abc79-1244191930  June 5, 2009], [http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/1489ef6ec4476b096d8cfd389bce95267fc8fff51bb958915843d2c7214abc79-1244888211 June 13, 2009])
# Symantec Enterprise - Oct 31, 2007 Definitions
# McAfee VirusScan (DAT Version 5150) - Oct 26, 2007
# AVG Antivirus - Oct 8, 2007
# Trend Micro OfficeScan - Sep 21, 2007
# Sophos - Aug 18, 2007
# Norton - Jul 17, 2007
# AntiVir Guard - Jun 27, 2007
# AVG Antivirus - Dec 7, 2006
# NOD32 - Nov 14, 2006
# F-PROT - Sep 21, 2006
# F-Secure - Sep 13, 2006
# Kaspersky - Sep 13, 2006
# Norman - Sep 11, 2006
# AVG Antivirus - Sep 11, 2006
# Fortinet - Jul 3, 2006
# AntiVir - Jul 1, 2006
# Norton &amp; Symantec - Jul 1, 2006
# Kaspersky - Jun 21, 2006
# BitDefender - Jun 13, 2006
# OneCare - Jun 07, 2006
# AVG Antivirus - Jun 06, 2006
# Norton - May 20, 2006
# AntiVir - Feb 22, 2006
# Ad-Aware - Nov 22, 2005
# Mcafee - Nov 16, 2005
# AntiVir - Oct 12, 2005
# ArcaVir - Aug 21, 2005
# MS Antispyware - Aug 09, 2005
# MS Antispyware - Jul 26, 2005
# AVG Antivirus - Jul 10, 2005
# MS Antispyware - May 18, 2005
# MS Antispyware - Apr 22, 2005
# AVG Antivirus - Apr 21, 2005
# MS Antispyware - Mar 01, 2005
# PCCillin - Sep 17, 2004
# BitDefender - Aug 29, 2004
# Mcafee - Aug 26, 2004
# Sophos AV - Aug 16, 2004
# Norton - Aug 09, 2004
# Mcafee - Mar 11, 2004
# Norton - Feb 24, 2004
# '''avast!''' - ???
# Vipre May 11 2009
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==== False Positive By Anti-Malware programs ====
* MS Antispyware: 5
* AVG Spyware: 5
* Norton: 4
* AntiVir: 3
* Mcafee: 4
* Kaspersky: 2
* BitDefender: 2
* Sunbelt: 2
* F-PROT: 1
* F-Secure: 1
* Norman: 1
* Ad-Aware: 1
* ArcaVir: 1
* Fortinet: 1
* OneCare: 1
* PCCillin: 1
* Sophos: 1
* Spyware Terminator: 1
* StopZilla: 1
* '''Total False Positives: 36'''


== Where to report false positives ==
== Where to report false positives ==

Revision as of 13:16, 12 February 2011

There are hundreds of false positive made with NSIS. This page contains a list of some of them.

Very nice post, good luck! ;-)

Where to report false positives

Online Virus Scanners

Here is a list of free online virus scanners useful to check NSIS installers and stubs for false positives: