bensun14
22nd February 2006 17:25 UTC

Backdoor.Agent.Adv
I wrote a program using .NET and created an installer using NSIS. The Installer is being picked up by AntiVir as Backdoor.Agent.Adv

Anybody have an idea why?

Afrow UK
22nd February 2006 18:30 UTC

No doubt another false positive. NSIS installers seem to create a lot of these. Best thing to do is create a basic installer (e.g. compile an NSIS example script) and if that creates the false positive as well then you should contact the anti virus program company.

-Stu

?retsiger
23rd February 2006 10:19 UTC

It's also a good thing to scan the installer with some online virus scan servise like http://virusscan.jotti.org/ to make sure it's false positive.

Especially a bit older NSIS versions gives lot of false positives so you might want to use latest NSIS version if you aren't using it already.

kichik
23rd February 2006 18:21 UTC

Also reported here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...49&atid=373085