Opened 10 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#3316 closed task (fixed)
OMC 1.9.2 for Windows is caught as a virus by AVG
| Reported by: | Francesco Casella | Owned by: | Adrian Pop |
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| Priority: | critical | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Installation program | Version: | trunk |
| Keywords: | Cc: | peter.fritzson@… |
Description
When installing the official 1.9.2 release on Windows systems using the AVG anti-virus software, omc.exe is seen as suspect (!) and quarantined or removed.
It is not clear what the actual reason is. I guess we should open an investigation with AVG technologies. I don't really think we have malicious code within omc.exe, do we?
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by , 10 years ago
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by , 10 years ago
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comment:1 by , 10 years ago
comment:2 by , 10 years ago
We could use their "Report false detection" page: http://www.avg.com/submit-sample
to send them a sample. I'll need to check a bit which dlls I need to include.
comment:3 by , 10 years ago
As far as I understand (see attached screenshots), the suspected file is just omc.exe. The module which identifies it as a threat is "Identity protection". http://www.avg.com/eu-en/faq.num-2255
The weird thing is that it is identified as such during installation, not during usage. Maybe omc.exe is launched during installation to download some drivers or something like this?
comment:4 by , 10 years ago
omc.exe is a very small executable which loads the huge libOpenModelicaCompiler.dll :)
We don't run omc.exe during the installation.
comment:5 by , 10 years ago
I cannot reproduce this issue on my desktop using OpenModelica1.9.2-r25117 and AVG 2014 build 4800.
I'll try installing AVG 2015 and try again.
comment:6 by , 10 years ago
I cannot reproduce this with AVG 2015 build 5941 at installation time.
However, if I run OMShell (as OMEdit doesn't use omc.exe anymore) and close OMShell AVG kicks in and reports the same as for you. I'll see if I can report this as a false positive to AVG.
comment:7 by , 10 years ago
I now reported the issue to AVG and hopefully they will fix it with a new update.
comment:10 by , 9 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Didn't happen anymore with 1.9.3, so I'm closing the ticket. I guess Adrian's input worked out.
Thanks for the reminder.
No, there is no virus in omc.exe.
I'll install 1.9.2 on my desktop which has also free AVG and do a report about it.
Hopefully they will remove it from their list.