Maya 2022, antivirus.

[Samantha]

Probably a dumb question but mounting the ISO for Autodesk Maya 2022.3 and going into licence patcher triggers my antivirus:

Backdoor:Win32/Bladabindi!ml

I guess I'm asking what's the use of it and why is it on Zonegfx, or is it a false positive, or something else.

[Abad]

Is for the keygen or some patcher, no just Maya... Disable the antivirus if is a 3th part and disable temporaly Win defender or use "Defender control", a mini-software just in a click for no more defender. I dont have any. Just Malyarebytes free, rarely used.

[Samantha]

The just "disable antivirus" doesn't fill me with confidence. I suppose I could upload and see what other scanners think.

[Samantha]

So I ran Virus Total, online checker on the package and this was the result.

[enjoyify]

A lot of license patchers get flagged by antivirus software. It's something about the way they operate and patch. Often they are actually harmless. BUT that said, given how many flagged that as a trojan I'd stay away for now.

BigSnake was the uploader for that. @Bigsnake2001 do you have any advice?

[Amber]

The thing about patchers, LMs, and other crackz and bypass medicine-

they show up as false positives, and for two reasons:
1) It's never been seen before, and uses some kind of executable packing, compression and encryption of executable code. Virtually everything that is an exe, dll, or similar will use some form of PE packing - legit, pirate, or otherwise. Unless it's babby's first Delphi project 🙂

2) It's well known. This specimen is not on anyone's whitelist, even though it is empirically safe. Everyone in the industry knows it's a bypass, and it works against a product that was already whitelisted at the behest of a generous "donor". I don't care if all it contains is air, it will be flagged as the worst virus your computer can possibly get. Heuristics at work: everything can look like anything, if you use the right glasses. Sometimes you can even find a scary look!

Both boil down to politics.
Anyone who's been involved in software creation will notice that almost every legit project hits that Flag Wall, where eventually the final packing or some such aspect will trigger flags, and then the next dev cycle involves working with those AVs that throw flags to get your legit shit to be properly reported as legit. Otherwise your product is doomed to the fringes of legitimacy.

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