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loudbob

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Potentially Unwanted App
« on: October 28, 2020, 05:34:40 PM »
I have just updated Voiceattack and now have a potentially unwanted app:

PUA:Win32/Pearfoos.A!ml

Alert Level: Low
Category: Potentially Unwanted Software
Details: This program has potentially unwanted behaviour

I had to set this to 'allowed' to enable voiceattack to run - is this part of voiceattack or unwanted malware?

Gary

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Re: Potentially Unwanted App
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2020, 05:40:08 PM »
Looks like a false positive, loudbob.  What antivirus software are you using?

I run the installer and the individual components through Virustotal before uploading:  https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2ada9d95d63722a229e6366d968cae9406901f34764d5f663b733338ce08ee3d/detection


- which you can also do yourself at https://www.virustotal.com

loudbob

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Re: Potentially Unwanted App
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2020, 06:20:31 PM »
Hi Gary,

Using Windows Defender (Windows 10 Pro).

Thanks