Are AV False Positives Hurting You? 97
Gerald asks: "After the most recent Wireshark release a certain AV vendor's product started warning users that the installer contained adware. Since then, I've spent several hours verifying this isn't the case, trying to get the AV vendor to fix their stuff, and reassuring affected users that we do not ship adware with our product. Unfortunately, this isn't an isolated case. I've had to do this
several times over the past few years, and each incident uses up time that could have been better spent elsewhere. It's even worse for other projects. If you produce software, have you ever suffered collateral damage from AV false positives?"
Nope, Running Linux... (Score:2, Informative)
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yup (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yes, this has been a problem for Nmap too (Score:2, Informative)
Re:yup (Score:2, Informative)
Yep - I've had an overzealous config of Norton delete every NSIS installer I had created. (Which was a number, used for installing various components of an in-house software system.) Specifically Norton had decided that every installer created by NSIS 2.17 was a virus, and someone had configured the file server where I had the installers to delete infected files (instead of just quarantining them).