Yuri :godot: on Nostr: Someone put Bosca Ceoil Blue through VirusTotal and got some matches 😬 Of course, ...
Someone put Bosca Ceoil Blue through VirusTotal and got some matches 😬
Of course, it is completely safe and free of any malicious code, and as a FOSS project the code is open for inspection too.
How does that happen?
Binary scanners use signatures and heuristics to identify viruses by their unique byte patterns. This is a greedy process to be extra safe, but that does mean it is prone to false positives.
Any binary out there can randomly have the exact patterns which the tool looks for.
Of course, it is completely safe and free of any malicious code, and as a FOSS project the code is open for inspection too.
How does that happen?
Binary scanners use signatures and heuristics to identify viruses by their unique byte patterns. This is a greedy process to be extra safe, but that does mean it is prone to false positives.
Any binary out there can randomly have the exact patterns which the tool looks for.