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<h2 id="virusscanners">Virus scanners and false positives with new SABnzbd releases</h2>
<p>In the first one or two weeks after a new SABnzbd release, a virus scanner (like Windows Defender) might say the new SABnzbd release
contains a virus / is malicious. This is caused by the new SABnzbd binary, which is new and thus unknown to some virus scanners.
After one or two weeks, the virus scanners are OK with the new release.
You can follow statistics what virus scanners say on www.virustotal.com
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In the first one or two weeks after a new SABnzbd release, a virus scanner (like Windows Defender) might say the new SABnzbd release
contains a virus / is malicious.
The reason for this is that SABnzbd is written in the programming langauge Python, but many malicious programs are <em>also</em> written in Python.
Just because of that virus scanners are triggered automatically after a new release, as the SABnzbd binary is unknown to them.<br>
These results are false-positives. <br>
You can upload the SABnzbd binary yourself to <a href="https://www.virustotal.com/" target="_blank">www.virustotal.com</a>, which checks the binary
against all available virus scanners. If the binary did contain some virus, all the scanners would be triggered. <br>
After one or two weeks, most virus scanners are updated and will no longer react to SABnzbd.
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<div class="footnotes-footer">
<div class="title">Footnotes</div>
<div class="footnote-footer" id="footnote-1">1. Often administrators receive so-called DMCA notifications</div>
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