KNOWLEDGEBASE - ARTICLE #1988

False positive virus reports in GraphPad Prism

We test every release of Prism with several major antivirus programs to make sure we don't distribute malware. 

Unfortunately, some antivirus programs are buggy and report false positive results. The site Virus Total tests any file you submit with 55 (as of July 2015) antivirus detectors. GraphPad Prism 6.07 itself passes all 55 scans. However on July 28, 2015 the Prism installer passed 52 of the scans (which includes the major ones) but failed with three: Jiangmin, Zillya, VBA32. We are confident these are false positives, because other companies have also found these three give false positive results. They are on the antivirus hall of shame! We are confident that Prism is distributed without any viruses or malware.  

Update Aug 3 2015: VBA32 and Zilla confirm that the report is a false-positive. Now VirusTotal shows that only Jiangmin flags the file as a possible malware. The other 54 scans are now clean. 

 

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