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[DerRaphael]

The Idea of the Open Letter

As you might have heard, there are still issues with False Positives Alerts from Antiviral software and compiled AHK scripts.

We (the guys who already contributed to this topic here: http://de.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2918) thought it might be a good idea to set up an open letter, which addresses all those companies whose virus scanner produces these false alerts.

The Goal

Right now, we have a letter template which is open to discussion. It is available in two language versions: english and german

The goal is to inform AV companies that they generated wrong signatures and these cause that every compiled AHK script is treated suspisious and as potential dangerous. It also might be a good idea to translate these letters into more languages, so that individual AHK users can send their own copies to AV companies to emphasize its importance

Publishing

The idea consists of two parts:
1st of all, as soon as the letters get into a version most of us agree with (lets say in a few weeks) these will be sent to support or to virus report email addresses from AV companies.
2nd part is to encourage all autohotkey users to copy this from here (source) and to send it as a individual version (email addresses where to send will be listed here)

Also as soon as any answer comes in, it 'll be published here for everybody to read.

The English version

[jballi]

Excellent idea! Where/How do you envision publishing it so that the Antivirus vendors will notice it?

[Rhys]

I think this is a good idea - I count myself lucky that McAfee has never flagged my compiled apps as malware / virii.
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[DerRaphael]

publishing:

the idea consists of two parts: 1st of all, as soon as the letters get into a version most of us agree with (lets say in a few weeks) these will be sent to support or to virii report email addresses from AV companies.
2nd part is to encourage all autohotkey users to copy this from here (source) and to send it as a individual version (email addresses where to send will be listed here)

i have to say, that this was not my idea. i just carried on the idea from IsNull who wrote the initial german version.

also as soon as any answer comes in, it 'll be published here for everybody to read. still if there are special wishes, better ways to phrase the content of the letters, everybody is welcome to contribute.

greets
derRaphael
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[Fry]

@DerRapael

To not confuse the Anti-Virus vendors

instead of virii, use viruses

It's the proper plural for virus.

[Oberon]

[ahklerner]

[Rhys]

Cool, I never knew that. You learn something new every day!
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[Fry]

Well DerRaphael was asking for better ways to phrase the content of this and I thoguht it was along the lines of this so I posted it

[Lexikos]

I have a few suggestions:

[DerRaphael]

updated typos (thx, fry) modified content (thx, lexikos) and made a pretty page layout for 1st post. still - if anybody willing to contribute a different version - either content or language - lets say french, spanish, dutch ... or some better idea to phrase content of the letter ... ya know, post iT!


greets
derRaphael
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[heresy]

i'm not sure if this board can display eastern asian languages properly. however korean translation is here.
AhnLab is korean company and there are more that i can't come up for the moment

The Korean version

[SKAN]

@DerRaphael: Very nice.

[Lexikos]

I think that its current form is too verbose. I (usually ) like to make my posts and e-mails as concise as possible without omitting anything of value.