Panda Internet Security 2016 detect Seti@Home as virus !

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Szwanke Michal

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Message 1823996 - Posted: 13 Oct 2016, 17:10:37 UTC

What is going on with seti@home ?

My Panda Internet Security 2016 detect some files autodownloaded from seti and by seti as virusses:

Suspicious file:

setiathome_8.19_windows_intel86__opencl_nvidia_SoG.exe

Any info ?
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Message 1824002 - Posted: 13 Oct 2016, 17:32:21 UTC - in response to Message 1823996.  
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It's what they call in the trade a false positive. Best put the BOINC data directory and everything in it in the exclusion zone in your anti virus program, so that it isn't automatically scanned.

Also, from Panda Security: If you trust the application and decide to exclude it, please send us a message through the Contact menu to add it as a trusted application on our Collective Intelligence database in case of a false positive.
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Message 1824074 - Posted: 14 Oct 2016, 0:23:34 UTC - in response to Message 1823996.  

What is going on with seti@home ?

The correct question is "What is going on with Panda (any Antivirus)?"

The file is this (your filename is wrong, I can't imagine you typed it all?!):
http://boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download_fanout/setiathome_8.19_windows_intelx86__opencl_nvidia_SoG.exe

The file is new (made ready for Download from SETI@home servers on 12 Oct 2016, 0:17:28 UTC):
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php

... so some Antiviruses are just by default suspicious for "new files / not commonly Downloaded files"

Scan by 55 Antiviruses:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/be68135f679d17af067cb9621b52adf66c5ffa1fa4edbfbf05aa282579a62eaa/analysis/
 


- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 
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Message 1834350 - Posted: 5 Dec 2016, 19:28:30 UTC - in response to Message 1824002.  

It's what they call in the trade a false positive. Best put the BOINC data directory and everything in it in the exclusion zone in your anti virus program, so that it isn't automatically scanned.

Also, from Panda Security: If you trust the application and decide to exclude it, please send us a message through the Contact menu to add it as a trusted application on our Collective Intelligence database in case of a false positive.

Same happened to me. let me check that.
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