Skip to content

webserial is being reported as dangerous by Windows Security... #18

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
wanderling opened this issue Dec 1, 2024 · 3 comments
Open

Comments

@wanderling
Copy link

vfedsczx

Why write about it now?
Because Windows decided not to inform me of this quarantine.

@kuba2k2
Copy link
Owner

kuba2k2 commented Dec 1, 2024

Unfortunately, there is not much I can do to fix it. One possible option would be to remove the .exe file from the addon bundle, but that would require downloading it from GitHub instead.

@reg98643t
Copy link

reg98643t commented Dec 26, 2024

Pretty dire score on virustotal.com too

Screenshot 2024-12-26 185210

@kuba2k2
Copy link
Owner

kuba2k2 commented Dec 26, 2024

You are free to:

  • inspect the source code on GitHub and how the binaries are built,
  • compile the program yourself,
  • or avoid using the addon if you're worried about it being dangerous.

This program needs to access low-level hardware (COM ports), it is downloaded by a web browser, and is not very popular. All of that makes AV software detect it as a false positive.

Besides, notice that the detections say "downloader" which is exactly what it does. It's not a malicious thing to do. Also notice that 11/72 isn't a critical score, and all of the well known AV software brands have not detected the file.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

3 participants