false positive Virus found on both windows builds V4.0.5

[Nate Jacobs]

My firewall ran into the following issues on the latest windows builds:
http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org/windows/stable/kicad-4.0.5-x86_64.exe
http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org/windows/stable/kicad-4.0.5-i686.exe

Message:
Gateway Anti-Virus Alert

This request is blocked by the SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus Service. Name: DigitalPlugin.A_92 (Adware)

Note: 4.0.0 did not have any issues.

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

Can your "firewall" think not report any more dianostic info that can actually be used to pinpoint the issue?

Could you check 4.0.4 and the latest nightlies?

[Nate Jacobs (jacobn1)]

both nightly builds fail to pass my firewall, for 4.04

kicad-product-4.0.4-i686.exe also failed,
kicad-product-4.0.4-x86_64.exe appears to be OK.

I'll ping my IT guy to see if he can get any further diagnostics for the error.

[xzcvczx (xzcvczx)]

$10 says your firewall is an over-protective dumb annoying thing :)

[Robert Terhune (newtham)]

I had the same issue with 4.0.5 at my work place. I have no control over it, despite my being a pretty squeaky wheel; and it took about two weeks to get the IT company to temporarily remove the block for me. It is definitely over-protective, dumb, and annoying!

But, in any case, can you guys look into it somehow? I hate to say "please do it" when I know you're really busy making such an awesome(!) open-source project. I wish I could help more, but the only data I can provide is that I got the same Anti-virus note that Nate reported above.

Thanks!!
Robert

[xzcvczx (xzcvczx)]

Do you have the same sonicwall device? as the best we (or anyone) could do would be report it to sonicwall and tell them to fix it, as its just a byte string in the file

[Robert Terhune (newtham)]

Yes, I think it is exactly the same as Nate wrote above. It guess it is a national database that IT companies subscribe to(?). My local IT guy was apologetic but insisted there was not much he could do (which seems really silly to me...). Thanks!

[xzcvczx (xzcvczx)]

can one of you submit to https://support.sonicwall.com/kb/sw7833 and hopefully the false positive can be fixed

[Robert Terhune (newtham)]

I tried to get the info (to file a report) from our IT company, and did not get a single reply. I'm not sure how these people stay in business...

Anyway, the good news is that the ban appears to have been lifted. I can download both stable builds now.

Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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