u/Fearless_Sun_3952

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I'm extremely new to the BBS community, to the point where I have only now finished reading up on the basics. A little while ago I acquired the latest release of SyncTERM for Windows, and after feeding it through VirusTotal, I received alerts by TrendMicro and TrendMicro-HouseCall, flagging "HEUR_NAMETRICK.D".

I'm confident that this can't be anything but a false positive, given that TrendMicro is also flagging LibreOffice, InkScape, and plenty of other FOSS tools for the same reason... not to mention that it's only two out of seventy possible detections. Despite this, 1.9rc2 is only a couple of days old with only a few hundred downloads, so I'm wary to launch it for the first time.

I'm hoping that other BBS users may have some insight on this. In short, is there any reason to be concerned about this? Can I dismiss this detection without concern? Thank you.

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u/Fearless_Sun_3952 — 6 days ago