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The antivirus has detected qbittorrent as malicious and has put me in quarantine.

I have downloaded the qbittorrent installable, and I have analyzed it in virustotal, in dr.web, and it tells me that it is clean.

Thanks.

Must be this. It can act up even if the program is not digitally signed... :/

I do not believe, because it was not a problem with Windows Defender, but with the Avira antivirus.
Anyway, he downloaded the Bittorrent again and reinstalled it; and for now without problems

It somehow makes me laugh inside when this type of topics are being opened.

Link to my long rant on the subject:
Chilling effects on qBitTorrent...
https://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php?act ... _msg=25616

I do not laugh about it so much as cry -- too many people put more faith in their security software than everything else to do with computers, and all too often that faith is sorely misplaced.

[quote="Nemo"]
It somehow makes me laugh inside when this type of topics are being opened.
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Well, about 90% of the antivirus market is straight junk. Only a very few remained respectable in the game.
99% of their features is snake oil. Even the very best has junk included.
And 100% of the customer firewalls are also just snakeoil... (*)

The security industry is a joke. I mean look at Avast, it has ~30 tick boxes during install, and you practically need only 2 to have proper protection.
All the rest? Upsell junk.


(*) Software firewall
- only makes sense if it's DENY ALL. which is very rare as it interferes with daily PC use and a normal user cannot even configure that.
- even if it's DENY ALL, a malicious software could just mask it's traffic through something else, or just use some exploit to allow traffic for itself without user interaction.