winflexbison installer has malware?

asked 2020-05-21 06:57:58 +0000

Hello all,

We are trying to setup windows based wireshark development environment and that requires us to install winflexbison. We requested our IT team to download this installer/zip and they use some tools to detects malware etc. They seem to find that this installer has malware in it.

It is really surprising that such a large community is working on wireshark installing winflexbison and IT detects malware.

Can someone help in clarifying this?

Thanks, Amit

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It could also be a false positive, it sometime happens.

Jaap ( 2020-05-21 07:10:55 +0000 )edit

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answered 2020-05-21 07:58:37 +0000

grahamb

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Thank you for your observation, you should note that the Wireshark project does not supply winflexbison, that is an external resource provided by the winflexbison project over at https://sourceforge.net/projects/winf....

As you didn't indicate which package you used, I downloaded the latest zip and submitted it, and the 2 executables in it, to VirusTotal which checks the files using 73 different AV engines and 2 engines reported issues with the executables, but 71 didn't, so as Jaap stated, this is likely to be a false positive.

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