LOVE Backdoor?

[Dragon]

A backdoor.bitrose in love.exe came up on a Malwarebytes scan after I installed love today. Nothing came up on Norton and VirusTotal.

Does anyone know anything about this?

[thelinx]

What exactly are you talking about?

[Dragon]

Sorry.

When I scanned my computer, there was backdoor malware in love.exe. Is this a false positive?

[Robin]

It might be useful if you told us what antivirus software you were using, but it most likely is a false positive, yeah. LÖVE is open source, you can check the code for back doors if you want.

[Dragon]

I'm using malwarebytes. If anyone else (on Windows) could scan LOVE with it that would be great.

[Roland_Yonaba]

I did. Using MS Essentials.
This release is clean : Löve 0.7.2 Zipped
Should be a false positive.
What's the backdoor's name ?

[Taehl]

Every version of Love above 0.5.0 (that is, when I first heard about Love) has tested clean with MSE and SuperAntiSpyware.

It would seem that your scanner either found a heuristic false-positive, or, far less likely, maybe you already have a virus which infected Love when you downloaded it.

[Kadoba]

I'm running Windows XP and I've done a full scan on love 0.7.2 with the free version of Malwarebytes and it didn't detect anything.

[TechnoCat]

Every version of Love above 0.5.0 (that is, when I first heard about Love) has tested clean with MSE and SuperAntiSpyware.

It would seem that your scanner either found a heuristic false-positive, or, far less likely, maybe you already have a virus which infected Love when you downloaded it.

I had a virus called flapjack waffles (or something similar) many years ago that injected itself into all my exe files. It also injected a link to its ad-site in all html files I had.

[Ryne]

Scanned 0.7.2 Using virustotal - it's completely clean, not even a false positive.

Code: Select all

File name: love-0.7.2-win-x86.exe
Submission date: 2011-06-29 21:55:49 (UTC)
Current status: finished
Result: 0/ 42 (0.0%)