Hi, I got a problem with GnuCash Portable. My anti-virus scanner (Avira Antivir) keeps telling me that "aqbanking-tool.exe is the trojan horse TR/Agent.861383". I hope this is a false positive?
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It's false. It's almost certainly telling you that because that exe is UPX compressed to save space. Many antivirus programs flag compressed binaries as false positives since it's modified from the original.
formerly rayven01
I supposed that myself, but it's reassuring to hear it from someone else...
I'm thinking it's false alarm, but what's little curious to me is that the file in portable version is 80KB and the one from non-portable installation is 185KB. Antivir finds this trojan in both versions though. Isn't the non-portable version the non-compressed original?
Hey
I had the same problem and the same worry when I Googled the virus (I don't actually use the Portable version, but came across this website anyway).
I submitted the file to Avira, and they came back and confirmed that it was a false positive. Using VDF version 7.00.05.61, you can see that it no longer recognizes the file as a virus.
More information here http://analysis.avira.com/samples/details.php?uniqueid=cwLL9W3KvMQrNLXIE...
SirCH
and you can check that yourself by using an online scanner such as http://www.virustotal.com or http://virusscan.jotti.org/.
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But can I rely on them to be as good as a conventional anti-virus application? Do they have a lower rate of false positives?
If you check then youll see that they scan your file with the programms of major Antivirus companies. So you have a good average. If 2 say its a virus but 32 say its clean then you can be almost sure that its clean. But if 25 catch a virus and 6 say "maybe" and 2 say its clean you can be almost certain that its infected.
I hope its clearer now.
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I get the idea now. I really could have tried this myself before asking stupid questions.
Again, thanks for your help.
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