So a couple of months ago, windows defender started flagging some jackett files as trojan, it’s still flagging it for me. Devs told everyone to just ignore it. Do we have a consensus about it?
https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/issues/16352
Seems to only affect windows and is a false positive which seems reasonable
I didnt even know they built it for windows
All the responses in that and other github issues that are saying it’s a false positive are from the developers of the project. I was wondering if someone else with expertise verified it.
On VirusTotal only 2/67 Antivirus vendors flag it as anything
That’s the usual sign of a false positive, a real malware/virus issue would show up in pretty much all the main scans.
EDIT: Here’s another scan, 0 antivirus vendors flagged in this one - Jotti is a much smaller site but you get the idea
I didnt even know they built it for windows
The *arrs are (or were, at least - Jackett is part of that family) dependent on Microsoft’s .NET framework. I clearly remember having to set up Mono to get Sonarr running in a Debian VM some years ago…
First I’m hearing of this, but I run it in docker on Linux.
Sound normal for Windows, back when I was using Windows I usually had to whitelist torrent clients in Windows Defender otherwise the torrent client .exe would disappear randomly during a virus scan. It was always some sort of false positive.
Sounds like Microsoft trying to prevent freedom to use the machine as you please. Standard big corp anti user behaviour
3rd party issue. No action needed by jackett.
I did not know about this, I had it installed somewhere in the past. I will revise the codebase tomorrow just in case.
