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MEKA being detected as a virus?
Post Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 6:27 am
Apparently the latest build of MEKA (mekaw-2019-12-13) is being detected as a virus from seemingly every anti-virus software and website I put it into. It's being detected as "Malware.Heuristic.1003" or something.

What is causing this to occur? Is this a false positive? (most likely) and is there a way to fix this in a future update?
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Post Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 7:37 am
It is a false positive. Often it is linked to the use of UPX packing, I’m not sure if that version is unpacked.
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Post Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 11:13 am
We stopped using UPX and the latest release is 2022-03-27:
https://github.com/ocornut/meka/releases
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Post Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 8:51 pm
Bock wrote
We stopped using UPX and the latest release is 2022-03-27:
https://github.com/ocornut/meka/releases


Thank you.

Maybe you should update the MEKA release page so it links to the Github instead of that outdated download.
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Post Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 8:11 am
Updated the old Download page.
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Post Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 9:20 am
This thread can be locked now, thanks admins.
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