False positive from AVG?

Ruden - Thu 03/03/2011 22:37:09 CET +0100

Very odd, just wanted to alert you that AVG virus scanner gave me what im very much assuming is a false positive on the file name kitty.exe im thinking it thinks its something else with the same file name..

might want to send AVG a note on that.

Thanks

Cyd - Tue 08/03/2011 18:38:24 CET +0100

Here is the very last virus scan analysis: result

Ruden - Mon 14/03/2011 22:05:07 CET +0100

Ya i dunno it was odd, AVG did an update for a day maybe that screwed up i think.. i even had downloaded a new copy to test with and my AVG locally didnt like kitty, assume automatically it was their fault not yours ;) its happened before for other apps. few days later it decided my original copy and the new downloaded one were fine.

Istvan - Fri 01/04/2011 03:30:26 CEST +0200

The main reason for this is that KiTTY uses UPX. This makes it seem like potential malware to scanners (UPX isn't so bad, but some UPX-derived packers are used by 100% malware and 0% by legit apps, so will always be flagged as malware). To reduce the false positives in the future, don't use a packer for it.

D - Mon 06/06/2011 23:17:04 CEST +0200

Could you please make a version of KiTTY_portable.exe available that is not packed ? This way it'll prevent this issue from happening and you can more easily run this brilliant software from the corporate office.

Cyd - Mon 06/06/2011 23:25:03 CEST +0200

Look at the download page.
There is a link kitty_nocompress.exe

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