False positive report.
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Could someone say if this is correct or false positive
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A thing called heuristics, which is a fancy word for "probability". There is no virus in Plutonium. There are way easier ways to spread viruses than to make a client, which is way more work than a virus would be worth. Use some logical thinking, please.
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A thing called heuristics, which is a fancy word for "probability". There is no virus in Plutonium. There are way easier ways to spread viruses than to make a client, which is way more work than a virus would be worth. Use some logical thinking, please.
Emosewaj tbf, remember CCleaner a few years ago? A trusted app that became infected, not because piriform wanted to infect peoples computers, but because hackers got in and injected their code into the installer. Not that I'm saying that's the case here.
I have experience with false positives, but there are definitely circumstances where it COULD potentially be a real virus.
Of course, there are a bunch of new threads mentioning this, so I would ofc suggest run a search through the forum first to see if a staff member has already said "its a false positive", or "we were unaware of this, thanks for bringing this to my attention"
In any case, I can confirm the bootstrapper is working just fine.
just my 2 cents, no offense meant in any way
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Well.. few things to say here.
- Pluto's infrastructure is well secured and hasn't been hacked.
- As mentioned already, there are easier ways to spread malware that don't include paying alot of money for infrastructure.
- Many of those detections are just because it's unsigned (signing a program costs a ton of money which pluto doesn't have) or it behaves in a suspicious manner for example by updating itself.
- A Plutonium user has informed kaspersky about this detection, they checked pluto and found it was indeed a false positive. Kaspersky no longer detects it now.
But on the other hand i always find it funny when people ask pluto staff if their software is malware, why would we tell you if it was?
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Well.. few things to say here.
- Pluto's infrastructure is well secured and hasn't been hacked.
- As mentioned already, there are easier ways to spread malware that don't include paying alot of money for infrastructure.
- Many of those detections are just because it's unsigned (signing a program costs a ton of money which pluto doesn't have) or it behaves in a suspicious manner for example by updating itself.
- A Plutonium user has informed kaspersky about this detection, they checked pluto and found it was indeed a false positive. Kaspersky no longer detects it now.
But on the other hand i always find it funny when people ask pluto staff if their software is malware, why would we tell you if it was?
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Yea but still it's a big inconvenience having to exclude the bootstrapper from scanning. We are working on it and hopefully that will not be necessary in the future.
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NukZey they also tell you it will be detected as a trojan before you download it unless you didnt read it
yep, welcome to the internet hahaha
I work in tech support and deal with that alllll the time. I answer the same handful of questions like 10 times a day, and all things you could just google and find the answer in 2 seconds. Last week I had to explain what the start menu on windows was to someone.people who actually research at all are very rare, I find
btw, my fav website that Im obviously not allowed to use at work, but I love anyway is lmgtfy.com
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Locking this post. Read the staff replies, the detection is a false positive nothing more.
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