Last exiftool 13.27 virus

[pbranly]

Hi
I have just downloaded the last version 13.27 for 64bits
The executable is recognized with a virus by my kaspersky and destroyed
Am I the only one ?
I don't have any issue with the previous 13.26 version
Thanks a lot
Phil

[FixEUser]

I see the same wie KAS v21.20.8.505, latest pattern DB:

Name: UDS:DangerousObject.Multi.Generic
MD5 Object: 7EB91B338CAD2827034828BC524B3BF2

But virustotal.com can't find anything:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e751dd50c9b4294643ea71c855f6bb135398ea101249e8d84a99a83e908fbd68

BTW: Only the 64bit version of v13.27 seems to be "false positive" by Kaspersky.
The 32bit version works fine.

[FrankB]

Windows defender has no problems with the 13.27 X64 version.

Maybe report a false positive to Kaspersky?

[pbranly]

I think this is a false positive
I will wait several days before trying again
Atm, i didn't even find a way to force the file as good toward kaspersky
Within less one minute, it is removed

[FixEUser]

Atm, i didn't even find a way to force the file as good toward kaspersky

Actually, you need to manually add an exclusion for the entire folder \exiftool-13.27_64
KAS will no longer check this folder then.

[pbranly]

Atm, i didn't even find a way to force the file as good toward kaspersky

Actually, you need to manually add an exclusion for the entire folder \exiftool-13.27_64
KAS will no longer check this folder then.

Mmmm I am not sure that is a solution
I download the zip file in the download directory
Then my antivirus destroys the exe file as soon as it is unzipped

Furthemore I dont like to unprotect a directory

I will wait either another version of exiftool, or a kaspersky release, or use the 32 bit version
Phil

[Phil Harvey]

For what it's worth, I ran exiftool-13.27_64.zip through the online Kaspersky virus checker (https://opentip.kaspersky.com/) and it came up perfectly clean.

- Phil

[pbranly]

Hi
Surprisingly this morning the file is not any more removed by kaspersky
I assume the kapspersky false positive was fixed
By chance it did not remove other files ......
Thank you
Phil

[FixEUser]

..this morning the file is not any more removed by kaspersky...

+1
After removing my exclusions, the newly downloaded 64bit-ZIP file was extracted without any problems.

My KAS version is still v21.20.8.505, so I assume a pattern update fixed it.