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Thunderbird Installer Flagged As Malware

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The 102.10.1 installed for Windows is flagged malware on Opswat Metadefender by Scrutiny.

Can this be confirmed to be a false positive given no other engines flag the installer?

https://metadefender.opswat.com/results/file/bzIzMDUwMWVKTzdNQjVpUDZrdU9sNXRhMWE/regular/multiscan

The 102.10.1 installed for Windows is flagged malware on Opswat Metadefender by Scrutiny. Can this be confirmed to be a false positive given no other engines flag the installer? https://metadefender.opswat.com/results/file/bzIzMDUwMWVKTzdNQjVpUDZrdU9sNXRhMWE/regular/multiscan

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Always install from the official site. Thunderbird developers cannot be responsible for what that particular product reports,

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david said

Always install from the official site. Thunderbird developers cannot be responsible for what that particular product reports,

Yep, it is from the official site and likely a false positive but would be useful to know if it can be reported as such to the particular vendor flagging it as malicious.

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For anyone reading this and wondering what is the official site: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all/

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I use https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload as it is more clear of what it flags on.

One of the most common reasons I have seen false positives claims with one or two anitivrus engines giving a malware result is due to flagging the 7zip self extractor even though it has existed in use for ages.

I uploaded the en-US 64-bit Thunderbird Setup 102.10.1 .exe to virustotal and it gives 0/48 https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/374d5fa515b895c70287be7c50fa3e6b65d6b0ca00e43c2b641d165025754757

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