F-Secure blocking Subsurface

[Benjamin]

On 8 Feb 2015 18:19, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> On February 8, 2015 7:57:56 AM Benjamin <nystire at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8 Feb 2015 17:55, "Krzysztof Arentowicz" <karent.bug at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I got a report from a user that on his machine Subsurface was blocked
by
>> F-Secure's Deep Guard heurestic.
>> > Policy settings prevented him from disabling this functionality, so he
>> was unable to run Subsurface.
>> > I cannot reproduce as I don't have access to a machine with such
>> configuration but I'm letting you now in case this is not an isolated
case.
>> >
>> > This was reported on Windows7 Pro 64 bit
>> > F-Secure Client Security 11.60 build 284
>> > F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.51 build 131
>> >
>> > as
>> >
>> > Suspicious: W32/Malware!Gemini
>> > https://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/suspicious_w32_malware_gemini.shtml
>> >
>>
>>
>> The latest version of Avast also blocks it.
>
>
> Anti Virus software is such a load of crap.
> The whole concept of fingerprints is just totally bogus. No, there is no
virus in the binaries. They are built from source without a single
component that isn't built from scratch. On a Linux box.
>
> Please have the person reporting this submit a false positive report to
their vendor of choice.
>
> I believe this has already been done for avast, apparently needs to be
done for fsecure as well.
>
> /D
>
>

I know that. You know that. The average user still clicks on whatever
dialog box gets displayed on their monitor. Especially if it is scary, red
and says "Warning".
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