So, I tried to install lidarr on my windows machine via the exe on the website, but my antivirus flagged it immediately. I am sure i could just work around this by disabling the antivirus for a bit or by composing it manually, but for all I know maybe someone inserted some malicious code. Is this an issue y’all have noticed? How can I tell if this is actually malicious?
artwork@lemmy.worldWonderful day!
Depending on the anti-malware, it may be either a known signature, or heuristics.
- In case of the former, the signature may be a just a single use of function inside the safe program that matches with a malware that uses the same (e.g., in a thread or memory range the anti-malware probed);
- Heuristics - May just be too restrictive local security settings;
Yet, if you don’t have enough time to investigate in locally in isolated environments as virtual machines/containers, debugging syscalls and activities in file-system, memory, network etc., there are less manual or outsources, options, including the common know ones:
- opentip.kaspersky.com
- opentip.kaspersky.com/requests
- virustotal.com/gui/
- any.run
Please stay safe!
Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
some of the more aggressive antivirus software will flag anything related to piracy.
If you are certain it was the official lidarr and is safe, you can add it to a whitelist so it is ignored.