AntiVir is silent now
I just got the response from Avira, the company behind the popular virus scanner "AntiVir":
(it is in German because it's a german company, but it means something like: The file 'MobMapInstaller.exe' has been classified as clean. Our Analysts could not find any malicious code in this file.)
And Avira has already updated the signatures accordingly - the MobMapUpdater is not being found to contain a virus anymore!
This seems to apply to the "Webwasher Gateway", too, which probably uses AntiVir as its scanning engine.
[update] And while I was writing this, the Austrian company behind the virus scanner "Ikarus" responded:
("Dear Mr. Schneider, the false alarm has been removed and will not occur anymore with the next update.")
[update 2] Okay, this is strange: The file "MobMapUpdater.exe" does not trigger the AntiVir alarm anymore, but the installer package "MobMapInstaller.exe" still does (though it just contains the MobMapUpdater.exe which is not triggering the alarm when it's scanned)!
Funny thing: I had to recompile the Installer package using a different compression setting in Inno Setup (that is the program I use to create the package) to get rid of the false alarm. Recompiling with the same setting did not help. Maybe the compression setting I used earlier was confusing AntiVir somehow...well, the alarm is fixed, so who cares ;-)
MobMapInstaller.exe CLEAN
Die Datei 'MobMapInstaller.exe' wurde als 'CLEAN' eingestuft. Unsere Analytiker haben in dieser Datei keinen Schadcode gefunden.
(it is in German because it's a german company, but it means something like: The file 'MobMapInstaller.exe' has been classified as clean. Our Analysts could not find any malicious code in this file.)
And Avira has already updated the signatures accordingly - the MobMapUpdater is not being found to contain a virus anymore!
This seems to apply to the "Webwasher Gateway", too, which probably uses AntiVir as its scanning engine.
[update] And while I was writing this, the Austrian company behind the virus scanner "Ikarus" responded:
Sehr geehrter Herr Schneider,
der Fehlalarm wurde ausgebaut und tritt mit dem nächsten Update nicht mehr
auf!
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
IKARUS Support Team
Christian SCHWARZ
("Dear Mr. Schneider, the false alarm has been removed and will not occur anymore with the next update.")
[update 2] Okay, this is strange: The file "MobMapUpdater.exe" does not trigger the AntiVir alarm anymore, but the installer package "MobMapInstaller.exe" still does (though it just contains the MobMapUpdater.exe which is not triggering the alarm when it's scanned)!
Funny thing: I had to recompile the Installer package using a different compression setting in Inno Setup (that is the program I use to create the package) to get rid of the false alarm. Recompiling with the same setting did not help. Maybe the compression setting I used earlier was confusing AntiVir somehow...well, the alarm is fixed, so who cares ;-)
