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Problematic antiviruses
There were / are some antiviruses that mark the qTox client as false positive.
The reasons why some antivirus engines might find qTox code suspicious are discussed here.
Please make sure that you did get qTox from one of links in [README.md] (https://github.com/tux3/qTox/blob/master/README.md#qtox).
If your antivirus reports a version of qTox to be infected and this is not on the list, you may want to report it here. Please also report the problem to your antivirus producer.
On 2016-06-15 13:51 UTC, Virustotal.com reported all 32 bit, 64 bit, installer, portable, binary and source code versions of qTox for GNU/Linux, OSX and Microsoft Windows available for download at that time to be clean by all 54 antivirus engines that Virustotal.com uses, except for the Windows 64 bit installer, which was reported to contain Trojans by the following 3 (updated 2016-07-29: 0) Antivirus engines:
Update 2016-07-29: No findings for the Windows 64 bit installer Virus Scan
Update 2016-08-22: No findings for the Windows 64 bit installer Virus Scan
The following antivirus engines have had reported findings / false positives in one or more versions of qTox at some point in the past but do not anymore today for any version of qTox:
- 2015-06-13, reported qTox as
Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9
- 2016-04-10, reported qTox updater as
Troj.Msil.Gen!c– [Virus Scan] (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c9fbb9a90a99ec1a677c70e46cb682688e5db7748e4692e233875e3fd09cc77b/analysis/)
- 2015-06-13, reported qTox as
Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9
- 2015-06-13, reported qTox as
Trojan.Adware.SMShoax.9
- 2015-03-20, reported qTox update as
TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen2 - 2017-03-28, detects openal containing
TR/Agent.eweqdwhile compiling (which causes compilation to fail as it subsequently blocks access to the respective binary files)
Contact Avira [Another way of contacting Avira] (https://avira.ideascale.com/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=selfhelp)
- 2015-06-13, reported qTox as
Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9
- 2015-06-13, reported qTox as
Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9 (B)
- 2015-06-13, reported qTox as
Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax
- 2014-11-12, reported qTox updater as
Virus: Gen:Variant.Kazy.205528 - 2015-06-13, reported qTox as
Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9
- 2016-06-15, reported qTox Windows 64bit installer to contain
Trojan.MSIL.CoinStealer- [Virus Scan] (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/648cf83023eb746dd3662cd6fef6296dc32fb9564b9aab5b29f1d81f2d422dd2/analysis/1465998690/) - #3384
- 2016-06-17, reported qTox Windows 64bit installer to contain
Trojan.MSIL.axpe- [Virus Scan] (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/ebc8029ef3f2082b783bb707f1163e116ceb798ccaa73781b81c5e3fe824c719/analysis/1466168542/) - #3384
Contact Jiangmin (Email addresses have self-explanatory English names)
- 2016-04-10, reported qTox updater as
Trojan.MSIL.CoinStealer.ej– [Virus Scan] (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/c9fbb9a90a99ec1a677c70e46cb682688e5db7748e4692e233875e3fd09cc77b/analysis/)
- 2015-06-13, MicroWorld-eScan reported qTox as
Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9
- 2015-09-03, reported qTox as [“suspicious software”] (https://github.com/tux3/qTox/issues/2170)
- 2016-06-28, reported qTox Windows 64bit installer to contain
HEUR/QVM20.1.0000.Malware.Gen- [Virus Scan] (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3fa85607c06c2b52686c992b23c6f010d4720015486c67b2f545b708ce03d2cb/analysis/1467110234/)
- 2016-04-10, reported qTox updater as
NS:Adware.GigaClicks!1.A4C7 [F]– Virus Scan
[Contact Rising (No longer offering support but false positives can be reported)] (http://www.rising-global.com/)
- 2014-11-12, reported qTox installer as
PAK_Generic.005 - 2014-11-12, TrendMicro-HouseCall reported qTox installer as
PAK_Generic.005
- 2016-06-17, reported qTox Windows 64bit installer to contain
Trojan.CoinStealer.Win32.64- [Virus Scan] (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/ebc8029ef3f2082b783bb707f1163e116ceb798ccaa73781b81c5e3fe824c719/analysis/1466168542/) - #3384
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