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Hosted Forums => foobar2000 => General - (fb2k) => Topic started by: taing123 on 2021-02-13 07:53:34

Title: Mcafee reported latest foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack contains virus
Post by: taing123 on 2021-02-13 07:53:34
as mentioned in the subject, any idea?
Title: Re: Mcafee reported latest foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack contains virus
Post by: darkflame23 on 2021-02-13 08:32:18
Please be aware that much of the software linked to or mentioned on this forum is niche and therefore infrequently downloaded. Lots of anti-virus scanners and so-called malware detectors like to flag infrequently downloaded software as bad until it is either downloaded enough times, or its developer actually bothers with getting each individual release allow listed by every single AV vendor. You can do many people a great favor when encountering such a "problem" example by submitting them to your AV vendor for examination. For almost everything on this forum, it is a false positive.
Title: Re: Mcafee reported latest foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack contains virus
Post by: j7n on 2021-02-13 08:35:07
Wash your computer with a rag soaked in isopropanol held on a two meter stick.
Title: Re: Mcafee reported latest foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack contains virus
Post by: 2tec on 2021-02-13 19:08:33
maybe what's needed is a wiki on what to do when this happens, so we can just point people at it, and maybe add this topic to the FAQ
Title: Re: Mcafee reported latest foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack contains virus
Post by: jazzthieve on 2021-02-13 20:45:45
There's a notice on top of every single topic on this board, including when opening the main foobar2000 forum. It's also on top of this topic which darkflame repeated. I think this should be clear and enough. What more would you want to have people be pointed to? If this isn't enough, more wouldn't really matter.