On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Tamas Rudnai wrot= e: > Hi, > > 1. As I understood your website and domain registration is brand new -- F= or > obvious reasons a brand new website that hosts only an executable to be > downloaded has a potential risk (meaning lots of malware authors are doin= g > the same, so you might have a characteristic similar to this). > Yup, that's why the warnings are popping up. > > 2. Could be that as a registrant you hide your name and address, phone > number etc, which can add up to the bad reputation > Yes, I'm hiding domain registration information and I'm not going to reveal it. > 3. Not sure where are you hosting that website but some web hosting > services has less good reputations than other (usually cheap/free has les= s > as that are more likely to be abused by malicious purposes) > I'm using JustHost - which sounds really cheap and suspicious, but their service quality is good and they have real people at the other end of the phone. > 4. Maybe your IP address or geographical location also in a range or > location which has less reputation. > I'm in Canada and the host is in the USA I think. > 5. Now you download an executable which is I suppose not signed digitally > with Verisign for example, so this may not help on Yeah I don't want to pay for any signing. > And then possibly all or many of these combinations leads security companies to say your application is untrusted and could potentially be a > malicious app. What I would do is to try to help on as many of these poin= ts > as possible (get your app signed, make sure it is hosted on a trusted > service and location, update whois information if possible). And of cours= e > you could report the False Positive to Google Safe Browsing service and t= o > Avast too. > > 6. Oh, and of course check your website whenever is compromised by an > attacker, apply security patches and remove malicious content that was > injected by the attacker if there is any... > > :( --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .