Any tips to give an application a virus-free sense?
#1
Hello Smile

I am planning to add a custom installer to my next torrents, but I am faced with an issue. Some people might think it is a virus, since it is not an installshield application. Is there any way of giving a sense that it is not a virus (the program itself is really not a virus)?

Thanks in advance Smile
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#2
I use custom installers all the time in my uploads. There's no "100%" way of letting people know that your uploads are clean.

My advice would be to tell people in your torrent description what is contained in your installers.

Patches/Cracks/Key-Gens will ALWAYS generate a false positive. If your not a skulled uploader. IMO. Upload your torrents anyway. MODS/TEAM will check them.

If you fuck about. You'll get your ass banned.

If not. Your torrents will stay. And over time downloaders will learn to trust your uploads. With that comes credability and a skull rating.

BTW,. Don't ask for a VIP/Trusted rating or it's the kiss of death mate.
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#3
If your not including cracks or serials for someone else's content and your app is freeware then you can get a free code signing certificate that will make user account control go from yellow to blue but more importantly will bypass most online av scanners so the likes of Virus Total will report your app as clean.

How you pack things makes a difference as well as more often than not just by using UPX you'll end up with several 'generic' anti virus warnings so you need to weigh up the pros and cons of having a smaller .exe with having one or more false positive results.

If your app really is clean then upload it to Virus Total then with any company that says its suspect just drop them an email telling them its a false positive and if it is they will remove it.
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#4
(Oct 25, 2013, 21:58 pm)-nelly- Wrote: I use custom installers all the time in my uploads. There's no "100%" way of letting people know that your uploads are clean.

My advice would be to tell people in your torrent description what is contained in your installers.

Patches/Cracks/Key-Gens will ALWAYS generate a false positive. If your not a skulled uploader. IMO. Upload your torrents anyway. MODS/TEAM will check them.

If you fuck about. You'll get your ass banned.

If not. Your torrents will stay. And over time downloaders will learn to trust your uploads. With that comes credability and a skull rating.

BTW,. Don't ask for a VIP/Trusted rating or it's the kiss of death mate.

Thanks a lot for this info Smile Would anti-virus software complain if I edited another application's registry? In a future torrent, I might have to edit Kontakt's registry to add a custom library.

(Oct 25, 2013, 22:11 pm)Kingfish Wrote: If your not including cracks or serials for someone else's content and your app is freeware then you can get a free code signing certificate that will make user account control go from yellow to blue but more importantly will bypass most online av scanners so the likes of Virus Total will report your app as clean.

How you pack things makes a difference as well as more often than not just by using UPX you'll end up with several 'generic' anti virus warnings so you need to weigh up the pros and cons of having a smaller .exe with having one or more false positive results.

If your app really is clean then upload it to Virus Total then with any company that says its suspect just drop them an email telling them its a false positive and if it is they will remove it.
What is a free code signing certificate? And does the code have to be open-source to get it?

I do not understand what you mean by how I pack things. I do not pack the library in the installer, I'm simply creating an installer to automate extracting the library, and move files around. Or are you talking about how I create the exe?
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#5
(Oct 28, 2013, 04:54 am)datsn1pah Wrote: What is a free code signing certificate? And does the code have to be open-source to get it?

I do not understand what you mean by how I pack things. I do not pack the library in the installer, I'm simply creating an installer to automate extracting the library, and move files around. Or are you talking about how I create the exe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPX
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