[vtkusers] Kaspersky 2016 reports a virus in the windows installer for version 7.0.0

[David E DeMarle]

Michael,

We've had false positives like this before so I assume and hope this is
another case of that happening. We'll investigate and report back when we
know more.

thanks,


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Michael Grabietz <
michael.grabietz at img-online.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just downloaded the vtk7-Installer for Windows. I want to install vtk
> under Windows 10. Kaspersky Internet Security 2016 is running on the PC.
>
> I used the following installer:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/files/release/7.0/vtkpython-7.0.0-Windows-64bit.exe
>
> Kaspersky 2016 is up to date.
>
>
> When I start the installer Kaspersky reports an issue with the file. A
> virus was detected. Name or type of the virus is reported as
> 'UDS:DangerousObject.Multi.Generic'.
>
> When VTK 7.0.0 is installed Kaspersky reports every *.pyd file in the
> directory C:\Program Files\VTK 7.0.0\bin\Lib\site-packages\vtk as
> infected by 'UDS:DangerousObject.Multi.Generic' too. 85 files were
> quarantined.
>
> vtkChartsCorePython.pyd                   Date: 2016-01-28 21:00
> vtkCommonColorPython.pyd                  Date: 2016-01-28 20:55
> vtkCommonComputationalGeometryPython.pyd
> ...
> vtkViewsInfovisPython.pyd
>
>
> I checked these files on various computers running different virus
> scanners like F-Secure and even Kaspersky 2015 (not 2016!) with up to
> date data bases. They don't complain.
>
> Further I checked vtkChartsCorePython.pyd on the Kaspersky Site. There
> is a possibility to upload files for checking. It is reported as
> infected. Maybe somebody can give it a try and uploads one of these pyd
> files to the Kaspersky site to verify this behaviour.
>
> I hope it is a false positive. Do you had already some similar issues
> like that? I am rather confused, since I cannot find any suitable
> information in the web about this issue.
>
>
> Best regards, Michael
>
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