Difference between revisions of "False positive"
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| − | |[[file:Kaspersky false positive.PNG|left]]||The software "Kaspersky Internet Security 2010" accuses the electra.exe, which is embedded into the TARGET 3001! setup to be a trojan.<br><br>The '''electra.exe''' is the long term approved autorouter ELECTRA, working '''correctly''' and '''efficiently'''. '''By no means''' it is a virus, a trojan, a worm or any kind of malware. We have checked the electra file by 34 virus scanners and did receive [[media:VirusTotalElectraDemo.pdf|not any further alert]]. According to one's best judgment this message is a '''"false positive"''' by Kaspersky.<br><br>Kaspersky obviously seems to be renowned for "false positives": Using the catchwords [http://www.google.de/#q=kaspersky+%22false+positive%22 kaspersky false positive] Google finds 107,000 reports. Some believe Kaspersky to be the "[http://www.google.de/#q=Kaspersky+%22king+of+false+positives%22 King of False Positives]".<br> | + | |<div style="width: 350px;">[[file:Kaspersky false positive.PNG|left]]</div>||The software "Kaspersky Internet Security 2010" accuses the electra.exe, which is embedded into the TARGET 3001! setup to be a trojan.<br><br>The '''electra.exe''' is the long term approved autorouter ELECTRA, working '''correctly''' and '''efficiently'''. '''By no means''' it is a virus, a trojan, a worm or any kind of malware. We have checked the electra file by 34 virus scanners and did receive [[media:VirusTotalElectraDemo.pdf|not any further alert]]. According to one's best judgment this message is a '''"false positive"''' by Kaspersky.<br><br>Kaspersky obviously seems to be renowned for "false positives": Using the catchwords [http://www.google.de/#q=kaspersky+%22false+positive%22 kaspersky false positive] Google finds 107,000 reports. Some believe Kaspersky to be the "[http://www.google.de/#q=Kaspersky+%22king+of+false+positives%22 King of False Positives]".<br> |
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|[[file:de_cleaner350.jpg]]|| Der <b>"Norton DE- Cleaner"</b>, by Symantec denominates our TARGET 3001! wrongly being a threat. Only if you conduct a second so called "Remote Scan", TARGET 3001! gets designated harmless. | |[[file:de_cleaner350.jpg]]|| Der <b>"Norton DE- Cleaner"</b>, by Symantec denominates our TARGET 3001! wrongly being a threat. Only if you conduct a second so called "Remote Scan", TARGET 3001! gets designated harmless. | ||
Revision as of 10:47, 18 April 2018
Some virus scanners give a false alert
Some virus scanners falsely alert the tarv14.exe or the electra.exe being malicious. This is aBy no means any of our software products is a virus, a trojan or any kind of malware.The bare statement of some virus scanners our software is "suspicious", "dangerous" or "malicious" is close to a defamation. These false positives are severely injurious to our business because customers as well as interested will be left insecure.
We are extremely concerned about the fact that our image gets flawn wrongly. We have furnished TARGET 3001! with a software signature which should avoid the rudest alerts but at the end of the day we somehow do not know how to offend this kind of friendly fire caused by virus scanners who should be a protection.
If you get such a warning and feel insecure what to do, don't hesitate sending us a mail: target@ibfriedrich.com
Yours sincerely
Ing.-Büro FRIEDRICH
See the following examples of false positives created by virus scanners:
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The software "Kaspersky Internet Security 2010" accuses the electra.exe, which is embedded into the TARGET 3001! setup to be a trojan. The electra.exe is the long term approved autorouter ELECTRA, working correctly and efficiently. By no means it is a virus, a trojan, a worm or any kind of malware. We have checked the electra file by 34 virus scanners and did receive not any further alert. According to one's best judgment this message is a "false positive" by Kaspersky. Kaspersky obviously seems to be renowned for "false positives": Using the catchwords kaspersky false positive Google finds 107,000 reports. Some believe Kaspersky to be the "King of False Positives". |
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Der "Norton DE- Cleaner", by Symantec denominates our TARGET 3001! wrongly being a threat. Only if you conduct a second so called "Remote Scan", TARGET 3001! gets designated harmless.
By the German "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik" the Symantec Norton DE-Cleaner is recommemded being a cleaning software in respect to the "botnet" problem. Via the botfrei.de association it can be downloaded. Solely in Germany this product causes an enourmous collateral damage by it's False Positives. heise.de or chip.de. Respectable companies with a spotless behaviour falsely get accused of spreading malware so their reputation gets irrepairably damaged. We are struck by this scandalous carelessness of the German Bundesamt which recklessly endorses injure to innocent software producers. |
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the virus scanner ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 alerts our software being a "Potential Threat". TARGET 3001! has applied at ESET for "whitelisting" . Do we now have to do so with every versions update? |