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n5zap
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Drivers detected as virus

Post by n5zap » Thu Aug 31, 2017 9:17 pm

I am trying to download and install SDRUno 1.13 and the API drivers version 2.10 and Windows defender is detecting both of them as a virus. I know the normal guidance here is to turn off virus protection, but does anyone know if these files are good or not? I ask because when I installed SDRUno 1.13 under VMWare I got several blue screens with "KMODE Exception Not Handled" which is a pretty serious bug.

Do these things work on VMWare Fusion 8.85 on macOS Sierra? Has anyone been using them successfully?
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Mike2459
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Re: Drivers detected as virus

Post by Mike2459 » Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:11 am

Same here. Windows Defender quarantined both the Uno installer and the XTIO Installer on August 30. Reported to be infected with Trojan:Win32/Rundas.B . The files have been stored on my PC for a couple months. Likely a false positive. Not surprising since Microsoft can't even keep a PC's clock updated with the correct time.

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DanubeBCL
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Re: Drivers detected as virus

Post by DanubeBCL » Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:02 am

Really strange. I have SDRplay_SDRuno_Installer_1.13.exe and SDRplay_ExtIO_Installer_1.0_2.exe on my PC for months. But Windows Defender never found anything strange. I probed the files manually right now with the latest virus definitions for Windows Defender: No infection found!
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Re: Drivers detected as virus

Post by g1hbe » Fri Sep 01, 2017 1:45 pm

No problems here. Windows defender is kept up to date but hasn't reported anything. Win 8 Enterprise.

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Re: Drivers detected as virus

Post by Hamsterdave » Sat Sep 02, 2017 3:22 pm

I had the same issue last week. I put it through VirusTotal and only 3 of the umpteen detection sets it uses flagged it as a trojan, and all 3 were different trojans. None of those were the same malware Defender listed. Must just be a bit of the code that's similar to something widely used in malware, and some of the virus detection algorithms aren't smart enough to tell the difference.
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DanubeBCL
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Re: Drivers detected as virus

Post by DanubeBCL » Sat Sep 02, 2017 5:58 pm

This is normal business.
Many radio softwares (commercial or freeware) are reported evil by a couple of virus engines when you upload them to Virustotal. Some virus engines change their mind daily. Today a software is benign, tomorrow exactly the same software is evil all of a sudden. Next week it is good again.
It's the same old story.
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Re: Drivers detected as virus

Post by mikeladd » Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:19 pm

I agree with DanubeBCL. This is a false positive.

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