FAQ for "Detected as virus"

[hackerb9]

It'd be nice if the cSploit project had a little FAQ listing which antivirus warnings are okay to ignore. I suggest a list because it seems like very bad practice to teach people to ignore all warnings. Here's a sample to start from:

Q: My antivirus says cSploit is infected!

A: Don't panic.

Many antivirus tools will flag cSploit as malware simply because of what it can be used to do. If you read the source code, you'll see that cSploit doesn't do anything malicious to you on its own, it is simply a tool malicious people might use. So, as long as you're not malicious, you're (probably) okay.

We are not saying to disregard your antivirus, though. Even with trusted programs like cSploit you should only ignore the threats that you are sure are false alarms. Here is a list of the ones we know so far (courtesy virustotal.com).

Antivirus Program	Virus Detected
AVG	Android/Deng.REK
AhnLab-V3	Android-AppCare/DSploit.1a0cb
Alibaba	A.H.Sys.HacktoolDSploit.A
Antiy-AVL	HackTool[:HEUR]/Android.DSploit.2
Avast	Android:DSploit-D [PUP]
Avira (no cloud)	SPR/ANDR.DSploit.70
CAT-QuickHeal	Android.DSploit.B (PUP)
Cyren	AndroidOS/GenPua.33B08F3A!Olympus
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Android/HackTool.DSploit.C potentially unsafe
Fortinet	Riskware/DSploit!Android
K7GW	Hacktool ( 004d314b1 )
Kaspersky	HEUR:HackTool.AndroidOS.DSploit.b
McAfee	Artemis!33B08F3A9177
McAfee-GW-Edition	Artemis!33B08F3A9177
Qihoo-360	Android mobile malware

[hackerb9]

Oh, and if you want to include the false positives detected from the binary that's on F-droid.org, there is one more:

Antivirus Program	Threat detected
AegisLab	Hacktool.Androidos.Dsploit!c

[IwraStudios]

thanks for the Q/A
I have added a FAQ page in the github wiki your Q/A is the first one

[hackerb9]

Thanks! I've added the list of "threats" and removed the props to me. (I appreciate it, but don't need the recognition.)