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I need to find out whether my apps are being flagged as viruses by the most popular anti-virus packages (not best, but biggest by user base). I therefore would like to know how others go about this. Some background:
I have an application written in Delphi. Ever since the Delphi virus was found, I've had problems with false positives on my applications, particularly my demonstration versions for some reason (they all share the same code). AVG has been good, and I can now whitelist my files easily, but then I got the latest DevExpress installer and it was false-positived too. Given this is getting more widespread, it struck me that I need to find out if my apps are being flagged by the most popular anti-virus packages. I therefore would like to know how others go about this. I don't want people to be downloading our demonstration versions, getting an AV warning, and deciding not to try it.
The only options I have so far are buying a load of AV packages and putting them in a VM, or using a service like VirusTotal. The latter seemed an ideal option but for the fact that they limit the test to files under 20Mb, and my files are bigger than this. There is no paid for option either to expand the capability. (I thought this an odd limit, but Kaperskis free checker is limited to 1Mb!)
How do you check your applications?
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The antivirus can detect only malware. So antivirus can stop hackers that depend on malware, virus, and trojans for hacking. In fact most attacks today happen on the network layer or through the web. If the hacker uses a totally different and new type of virus, your antivirus software will not detect the virus.
If you need an antivirus on Android, AV-Comparatives, which is an independent organization that tests anti-virus products for different platforms, recommends the likes of Bitdefender, Trend Micro, AVG, and Kaspersky. Don't just install any antivirus from Google Play — most of them don't actually do anything.
VirusScan.jotti.org and VirusTotal.com may help
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