I tried to download the windows (zip) version of exiftool 10.03 and get a virus warning site...
I've a tool that automatically tries to download exiftool if there is a new version of it. That fails because of the virus warnig.
Does anyone have the same effect? Try this link http://www.exiftool.org/exiftool-10.03.zip (http://www.exiftool.org/exiftool-10.03.zip), do you get the zip file or a virus warning?
The download link works for me. It must be your browser that doesn't like the file. I just scanned it using the VirusTotal online scanner and it didn't find any viruses.
- Phil
Cool-had the effect with Chrome. If I try it with Firefox it works. But my tool still doesn't download. Have to check this must be a local problem. Thx for your fast answer!
Greetings from Germany :D
I've just found that 10.04 is blocked by our university's web gateway (the Windows zip file is blocked, the OSX DMG and tar.gz download fine.). Attempting to get the zip results in:
Virus Download Blocked
Access to this file has been blocked by xxxxx in accordance with the University's policies and procedures listed below:
Acceptable Use Policy - Students
Information Technology Use Policy - Staff & Other Authorised Users
Details:
IP: xxxxx
File: exiftool(-k).exe
URL: exiftool(-k).exeDownloaded it at home (sha1=b20352c9b5ed5b9a4f050f0599d58217f216411a exiftool-10.04.zip) and have scanned it on two different platforms with three virus scanners and they all say no problem. Reporting it to our security staff via service desk gets the following:
QuoteAppreciate you bringing this to our attention. This virus has been picked up by global intelligence as potential virus, first seen 04/11/2015 at 2:23am. Before whitelisting this file, we've requested an investigation into the legitimacy of this threat.
Someone is convinced its a virus.
Have you tried downloading it off of SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/exiftool/).
Norton has a grudge against ExifTool for no good reason. See this post (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php/topic,6818.msg34110.html#msg34110). I wonder if this is the problem.
- Phil
A short message has come through from our security staff "This has now been marked as safe." and now I can download 10.04 and 10.05. sha1sum says that 10.04 is the same as the file that was being detected as bad a week ago.
False positive.
Thanks for the update.
- Phil