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doug1943
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VLC Download Site on Avira Malware Warning List

Postby doug1943 » 11 Sep 2015 18:30

I tried to download the latest VLC and my Avira anti-virus progrm said that the site was a known Malware site.

Does anyone know why it does this?
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Re: VLC Download Site on Avira Malware Warning List

Postby kodela » 11 Sep 2015 18:45

From where did you download? From http://www.videolan.org/ ?
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Re: VLC Download Site on Avira Malware Warning List

Postby tomyilj » 06 Jan 2016 08:40

download from
http://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vl ... -win32.exe

Gateway Anti-Virus Alert
This request is blocked by the SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus Service. Name: (Cloud Id: 33427764) XPACK.GEN (Trojan)
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