VirusTotal and False Positives

[ovortex]

Hello,

First of all, thanks for your great work on RetroFE!

I noticed that VirusTotal yields many alerts when scanning retrofe.exe 0.7.20:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/217c3b23d7ef1603afa92708ba2650dc879e7523167f96c85fafe92f881f71fa/analysis/1487921720/

Although these certainly are false positives I was wondering if anything could be done about that?

If I were to compile my own retrofe.exe would the result be the same?
Are there any compiler/project settings that could be changed so VirusTotal wouldn't report that many issues?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

In all honesty: I have no idea. I'm running AVG myself, and as you can see in the report: no issues. You could certainly give compiling your own executable a try to see if it makes a difference. Just keep in mind that I compile with /MT so not every user needs to install Microsoft Visual Studio; that might be of influence here.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I ran a quick check on my latest executable: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/be4a3cf4ec671eac9572ffb39cd574ece987049d888f4f034885d532d76b84a5/analysis/
It's certainly cleaner, though I haven't really changed much (just a few cleanups in the code); my system itself hasn't changed.

As said: I'm not really sure what causes some virus checkers to find issues here; I heard the HyperSpin download has similar issues. I'm open to suggestions.

[ovortex]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Cool, your new executable apparently is already a huge improvement in this regard.

I'm a total noob when it comes to compiling stuff so I won't be of much help here.
My naive approach would include things like changing optimization levels or changing static vs dynamic linking.

I have also read about similar issues with Hyperspin and WinKawaks.
At least the latter is UPX-packed as far as I know so it's even less of a surprise virus scanners go bonkers