tmux being picked up by AVG antivirus?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 1/22/2015 9:46 PM, Jim Lehmer wrote:
> AVG 2015, auto-updated as of this morning, picked up newly-installed
> tmux as an "Unknown" threat with source "Identity Protection" when I
> tried to run tmux for the first time. I have submitted it to AVG for
> analysis but don't hold out much hope there.

I have submitted several false positive reports to different
Antivirus Company and they have, until now, updated their
scan database in few days.

> Anyone else seen this? Any idea as to why? I can see by the tmux doc
> (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/tmux.1?query=tmux&sec=1)
> that it uses a *IX-style socket in /tmp to communicate between client
> and server, I wonder if that is what triggered it?

Wonder of heuristic approach...

Regards
Marco




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