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Monday, December 26, 2016 8:52 PM
When trying to redownload a folder, I saved to Google Drive it says it has a virus. All of the files in my zip folder are files from Visual Studio. The message that displays says: ""PrivateJet.zip" is infected with a virus. This file might harm your computer, so only download this file if you understand the risks." Is it possible there's a virus in the libraries I'm using?
The References I'm using are:
DocumentFormat.OpenXml
Microsoft.CSharp
Microsoft.VisualBasic
System
System.Core
System.Data
System.Data.DataSetExtensions
System.Deployment
System.Drawing
System.Net.Http
System.Web
System.Web.Abstractions
System.Web.ApplicationServices
System.Web.DataVisualizations
System.Web.DataVisulatization.Design
System.Web.DynamicData
System.Web.DynamicData.Design
System.Web.Entity
System.Web.Entity.Design
System.Web.Mobile
System.Web.RegularExpressions
System.Web.Routing
System.Web.Services
System.Windows
System.Windows.Forms
System.xml
System.Xml.Linq
WindowsBase
All replies (5)
Monday, December 26, 2016 9:09 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote
Hi,
did you download it before without the warning?
If so, it might be, that the company that owns the storing service performs a virus scan and temorarily flags all files in a folder to scan as critical. At least this happens with firefox and OneDrive once a week. If I wait an hour or so, my files are downloadable again without a warning.
Some weird other things that occured: A virus scanner flagged the Decorator-Pattern in VB as virus, on the other hand a c# implementation wasnt flagged dangerous...
Regards,
Thorsten
Tuesday, December 27, 2016 6:36 AM
Hi Cloaking_Ocean,
According to your description, in your computer, if you have installed anti-virus software. I suggest you could download the folder first, and scan it to see which file has been specified as Toxic file. Then you could judge that whether this file is you saved to Google Drive. If yes, I think this file has nontoxic, if not, please delete it.
Sincerely,
Oscar
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016 8:36 AM
Thank you, Thorsten Gudera. I just recently tried redownloading the file, and as you said it no longer indicates it has a virus. Thanks for your information!
Tuesday, December 27, 2016 8:38 AM
Hi Cloaking_Ocean,
If a reply help you resolved issue or doubts, please remember to mark it as answer, thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Oscar
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016 2:17 PM
Thank you, Thorsten Gudera. I just recently tried redownloading the file, and as you said it no longer indicates it has a virus. Thanks for your information!
Hi,
good to hear that. When I first had that issue, I really was kind of shocked and thought of someone hacking that internet-address. I think this is not very customer friendly since clean files are flagged as dangerous. It would be better if they created a third state "check_in_progress" or so to inform the user that a scan currently takes place.
Regards,
Thorsten