what am i seeing...
So I just scanned the iris installer I installed about a half a year ago. I hope I don't have a trojan.
I used the virustotal website.
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You don't, no need to worry
why does it say "trojan" then?
Mods getting marked as a virus isn't that rare
Some antiviruses are just way more careful than they really need to be
Isn't more carful better?
Not always
why that?
Well, because they might mark non-dangerous mods as viruses, for example :P
If you really want to make sure, you can always take a look at the source code on GitHub, it's all public
Also your Iris installer version is a bit old
As long as you downloaded it from the official website, there's no need to worry
I've no idea of coding
Okay thank you
Those 'detections' are based on heuristics, which is a fancy word for "guess". It's like if you showed up at someone's house and saw a crowbar. Sure, that might be used for breaking into doors, but it's most likely used for legitimate things. Those scanners report a "suspicious" flag for those things, but it's often completely meaningless.
When you see 1 or 2 AVs detect something ending in "sus" and 40 detecting nothing, that's almost always a false positive that can be ignored.
Some anti viruses just mark jars as viruses because jars used to be commonly used for viruses
Okey, thanks