Avira find a virus in the binaries generated using GCC under cygwing

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 09:14:00 GMT 2015


On 1/22/2015 2:15 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Marc Le Roy!
>
>> I am using the current version of Cygwin (32 bits).
>> When I compile a C program with GCC, my Avira antivirus as well as the
>> one running on https://www.virustotal.com find "TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen2" in
>> the exe file.
>
> It is clearly evident from the name, that this is a work of heuristics. Not
> real detection.
>
>> The remaining 56 antivirus of virustotaldo not find any problem. May I
>> consider this is a bug in Avira ?
>
> You must.


so Marc,
please open a false positive report with Avira


> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 22.01.2015, <04:14>

Marco


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