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Peter from LinPlug · Post by **Peter from LinPlug** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:48 am

Hi there,
some of you may already know this, but for everyone encountering this the first time:

On PC it can be that your anti-virus software (or anti-spyware, anti-xxx etc) reports some issues with our installers. Of course our installers are 100% clean, however, this reports can appear. Why is this the case: The installers are executable files, and they contain compressed data. Compressed data however has an almost random pattern of bytes which can be exactly the same as a existing virus, or - more likely - it can be similar, so the "intelligent" algorithm in the virus scanner detects some DANGER

Currently (October 2010) Norton find such malware in some of our installers, we notified Symantec. Meanwhile we can only suggest to switch Off your protection software while downloading from LinPlug.

Peter from LinPlug · Post by **Peter from LinPlug** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:37 am

Symmantec confirmed false positive and said it will be fixed soon

Peter from LinPlug · Post by **Peter from LinPlug** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:20 am

Unfortunately after the fix, it came in again, so many of our products seem to be virus infected in Norton Anti Virus products, of course thats not the case. We work with Symmantec on a solution. Meanwhile its recommended to temporarly (!) disable the NAV and install the LinPlug instrument, as NAV only thinks the installer is a problem ,once installed it notices all is fine.

standalone · Post by **standalone** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:20 pm

Are you aware of this? It's outragenous:

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/linplug.de
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/linplug.de

It's like if they just copy and paste old Symantec ratings.

Peter from LinPlug · Post by **Peter from LinPlug** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:50 am

Yep, thanks, thats how it works these days, these rating are plain bullshit. But its interesting too, because of a failure in some anti-malware software you get a bad rating which is shared all over the web.
We meanwhile report all new installers directly to Symantec, so we get a white-listing from them and avoid further bad ratings by a certain degree. Funny is the McAfee rating, though they seem to have noticed that all we do at linplug.de is linking to linplug.com they still found this very dangerous

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AV "False Positive" reports in LinPlug Installers