[Elecraft] K3 MARS mod, showing a virus

[John W. Tipka]

Keith,

A similar thing happened to me with Roy Lewallen's EZNEC V.5.0 antenna 
modeling
software. AVG reports it as containing a virus!  As such, it is does 
not, but again a
false positive on the part of AVG.  Roy related via a telephone 
conversation that he
had to change the way he compiled the software to reduce the odds of a 
false positive
being reported by various AV software.

Whose antivirus software does one use these days? I don't know. AVG gets 
it wrong,
and so does McAfee, Avast and Norton . Maybe one of them will get it 
right someday.

John W8UL



On 6/3/2014 12:10 PM, KB9WMJ at wi.rr.com wrote:
> I got a response finally yesterday, and they resent the mod, but it still
> comes back saying it has the same virus.  Elecraft said it was because it's
> a EXE file, and renamed it a XEX file, but that didn't seem to matter to the
> AVG Antivirus.
>
> This is coming directly from Elecraft, and also believe it is a false
> positive, but was curious if anyone else has expeirienced this as well.
>
> Keith
> KB9WMJ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Reublin" <nf4l at nf4l.com>
> To: <KB9WMJ at wi.rr.com>
> Cc: "Elecraft List" <>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 5:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 MARS mod, showing a virus
>
>
> Most likely a false positive. Do you know which of the Elecraft guys wrote
> it? Did they email it to you or did you download it?
>
> Contact Elecraft again. It's not like them to be non responsive. Then notify
> AVG so they can correct their software.
>
> 73, Mike NF4L
>
> On Jun 2, 2014, at 5:21 PM, <KB9WMJ at wi.rr.com> <KB9WMJ at wi.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else encountered this?
>>
>> My AVG virus S/W is saying that my K3 MARS mod (which I have not used yet)
>> contains the Win32/DH virus.
>>
>> I e-mailed Elecraft a week ago, but got no response.
>>
>>
>> Keith
>> KB9WMJ
>>
>>
>>
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