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Post by eps on Oct 19, 2015 5:13:25 GMT -5
Downloading of your file from SourceForge was blocked by Firefox. I had to use a different browser to download. My antivirus program reports 6 high-risk items (exe files). VirusTotal reports a malware detection ratio of 27/54 for PolarityLauncher.exe. This is very high! Polarity.exe and polarityaddonhelper.exe each gets 1/57. Kindly look into this issue. I hope these are just false alarms.
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Post by Stanley Lim on Oct 19, 2015 6:02:19 GMT -5
Hello and thank you for your report. You are not the first one to report these false alarms. However, I have contacted numerous antivirus companies and they have all stated that it was a false positive and rectified the issue. I will look into this and report back with the results soon.
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Post by Stanley Lim on Oct 19, 2015 16:23:06 GMT -5
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Post by eps on Oct 20, 2015 0:58:16 GMT -5
I have a screenshot of the result from VirusTotal just before I posted my comment yesterday but I am not sure how to include the jpg file in this forum. The test file PolarityLauncher.exe was uploaded to VirusTotal directly from the Polarity installation folder on my computer.
I tried downloading using Firefox v41.0.2 two times. Both times, it was blocked.
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Post by eps on Oct 20, 2015 10:22:59 GMT -5
I resubmitted the file polaritylauncher.exe to VirusTotal. This time the result is even worse: 30/56. Since I am not able to post a screenshot jpg file, I copied and pasted the summary of results as text here:
SHA256: 70e92f56eeed49da5669048b33ca0e9600d29ce86086887dc3a20f8a1ee438e8
File name: polaritylauncher.exe
Detection ratio: 30 / 56
Analysis date: 2015-10-20 15:16:20 UTC ( 1 minute ago )
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Post by Stanley Lim on Oct 20, 2015 16:08:43 GMT -5
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Post by eps on Oct 20, 2015 20:41:45 GMT -5
I went through the complete download and installation process again just minutes ago. The Polarity Installer (1,073,152 bytes, obviously only a stub) was downloaded from SourceForge. When run it downloaded (I think) about 30 files from (presumably) your server during installation. I have no control over this part of the installation as the files were downloaded and installed automatically. Below are 3 of the exe files with their respective sizes:
polarity.exe 1,825,280 bytes
polaritylauncher.exe 137,216 bytes
polarsync 34,304 bytes
I again uploaded polaritylauncher.exe to VirusTotal and the new result summary is
SHA256: 70e92f56eeed49da5669048b33ca0e9600d29ce86086887dc3a20f8a1ee438e8
File name: polaritylauncher.exe
Detection ratio: 30 / 55
Analysis date: 2015-10-21 01:05:24 UTC ( 0 minutes ago )
I notice that the SHA256 value of your file is different from what I got.
Your value: a2d479d0435be56fefb32a346d7bfdf33692f8d9861b38da8d8a1da14a8b9008
So, we have been testing different files with the same name?
BTW, I am running Windows 7 Pro. My AV program prevented me from completing the installation because it quarantined almost all the exe files, so I had to turn it off while doing the installation and turned it back on immediately after that. I have not attempted to run Polarity because of these problems.
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Post by Stanley Lim on Oct 20, 2015 20:59:23 GMT -5
Hey eps. Try reinstalling again. I think I found the issue and I have rescanned the files. 0/56 detected.
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