Latest release of Donation Edition contains Win.Keylogger.Pwsx-10029486-0

[Mew24]

Hello, I recently auto-updated using the donation edition feature.

Antivirus Essential is now registering this threat info:

Threat:
Win.Keylogger.Pwsx-10029486-0

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b0929eb2bb8355f04a42a0c7bfce34aa8a1632e96e6fc61a860d53c5527254e2/detection

Why is this and can I provide additional information?

[xCSxXenon]

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https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#virus

[Mew24]

viewtopic.php?t=11289
viewtopic.php?t=11278
https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#virus

Ah okay, thank you and sorry for failing to use search (slap on my own wrist for that)

Maybe a dumb question but do you happen to know how I can help report a false positive like this? I've used FFS for years now so I didn't really doubt it just find it "annoying" to have a pop up like this if you understand me :)

Again thanks for answering.

[xCSxXenon]

It depends on what your AV's vendor set up for such cases, but looks like it is "powered by ClamAV"
https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/7.2/software_spec/antivirus_essential

I haven't heard anything bad, or good, about ClamAV, but I have seen its name a handful of times. You could report the false positive to ClamAV. Personally, I recommend using Microsoft's built-in AV for Windows, nothing extra for macOS, and Linux ummmmmm...I don't recommend daily driving unless someone is able to figure it out on their own lol

[Mew24]

It depends on what your AV's vendor set up for such cases, but looks like it is "powered by ClamAV"
https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/7.2/software_spec/antivirus_essential

I haven't heard anything bad, or good, about ClamAV, but I have seen its name a handful of times. You could report the false positive to ClamAV. Personally, I recommend using Microsoft's built-in AV for Windows, nothing extra for macOS, and Linux ummmmmm...I don't recommend daily driving unless someone is able to figure it out on their own lol

I will look into it myself a bit then, I may remember to update with my findings about reaching out to ClamAV.

And for your reasoning around Linux, it's very simple actually, it's the AV I run on my Linux based NAS, and I run it mainly because of it's ability to not "be windows looking at windows files". That's of course a short version, but never hurts having multiple eyes looking at important files in my opinion. :)