Windows Security flags 2.5 release as "Emali" trojan

[ghost]

Bizhawk 2.50 virus!

see image

[zeromus]

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/377c2f7e5c3d0c08d8306da96145b6b7779b504d5934aa554797e4aca0d3b570/detection

edit: This is URL scanning which VirusTotal treats differently to file scanning. Uploading EmuHawk.exe will show "One engine detected this file" (only Microsoft), as @Bio37 notes in #2356 (comment). --yoshi

[RetroEdit]

Discussion continued at #2357 because the discussion here was locked.

[YoshiRulz]

My Win10 machine is giving me the same anti-virus warning now (it wasn't when I originally downloaded the file, maybe because I put it on F:\).

The good news is that it's only a false positive (VirusTotal is reliable, they show that only Microsoft's lower-tier AV flagged us). The bad news is that it's annoying for users and makes us look bad.

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edit: For the record, OP should never have opened this issue (disregarding their later spam which is obviously unhelpful). Issues regarding security should be privately sent to a developer, preferably adelikat as in our security policy. I'd wager most open-source software devs would prefer an email over a bug report for security issues/disclosures. On GitHub, click "Security" at the top of any page on any repo to see if they've got a security policy.

[RetroEdit]

Yep, it got quarantined for me on Windows 8.1 with the same error message.

[Bio37]

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/377c2f7e5c3d0c08d8306da96145b6b7779b504d5934aa554797e4aca0d3b570/detection

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b16aaa38d66cb93a188aa4a1fe6702df9678431c0c5d2ca365989bd021ca5681/detection

[YoshiRulz]

I've run 2.5.1 through the same check and it appears unaffected: BizHawk-2.5.1.zip, EmuHawk.exe. This time around, the archive has a false positive from some Chinese AV I've never heard of that doesn't seem to be available (outside China? anymore?).