{
  "id": 2404,
  "title": "Sample Data file csv flagged as trojan by forefront",
  "url": "/competitions/predict-closed-questions-on-stack-overflow/discussion/2404",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2012-08-21T19:54:41.237Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 2219,
  "content": "<p>When opening the 7zip archive for the sample data the csv file comes up as a trojan in forefront security. Anyone else encountering this?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "13287",
      "postDate": "08/21/2012 19:54:41",
      "content": "<p>When opening the 7zip archive for the sample data the csv file comes up as a trojan in forefront security. Anyone else encountering this?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "13292",
      "postDate": "08/21/2012 21:59:43",
      "content": "<p>Yep, Microsoft Security Essentials finds it too. There have been lots of questions about &quot;is my website compromised&quot; with full examples of the malicious scripts, so I'm not surprised there are red flags. Just ignore it.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "13294",
      "postDate": "08/21/2012 22:20:04",
      "content": "<p>This is a false positive.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nWe actually run into stuff like this somewhat regularly. Since Stack Overflow is all about coding most of our posts contain code, and most virus scanners use fuzzy matching on certain types of code; this leads to a number of false positives.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn fact we even had an incident where some of our code was <a href=\"http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/111351/virus-reported-after-loading-page\">\r\nflagged for using Math.random()</a>.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "13422",
      "postDate": "08/24/2012 19:34:44",
      "content": "<p>That definitely sounds like a rule learned by an ML algorithm. What an interesting case study.\r\n</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 13292,
      "author_name": "minitech",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/21/2012 21:59:43",
      "content": "<p>Yep, Microsoft Security Essentials finds it too. There have been lots of questions about &quot;is my website compromised&quot; with full examples of the malicious scripts, so I'm not surprised there are red flags. Just ignore it.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 13294,
      "author_name": "kevinmontrose",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/21/2012 22:20:04",
      "content": "<p>This is a false positive.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nWe actually run into stuff like this somewhat regularly. Since Stack Overflow is all about coding most of our posts contain code, and most virus scanners use fuzzy matching on certain types of code; this leads to a number of false positives.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn fact we even had an incident where some of our code was <a href=\"http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/111351/virus-reported-after-loading-page\">\r\nflagged for using Math.random()</a>.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 13422,
      "author_name": "mcstar",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/24/2012 19:34:44",
      "content": "<p>That definitely sounds like a rule learned by an ML algorithm. What an interesting case study.\r\n</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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