ActivityWatch/activitywatch

Submit false positives to antivirus vendors

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#181 opened on Mar 21, 2018

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Description

I saw in past issues (e.g., #140 ) that people reported that the software is flagged by antivirus software, and that this is reasonable estimate based on the heuristic of a keylogger.

The latest Windows zip is flagged by 9 scanners.

Would you please consider contacting the vendors to whitelist it? There is a contact list on techsupportalert and another list is available if you email VirusTotal.

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Contact antivirus vendors to whitelist the software using provided contact lists (e.g., from techsupportalert or VirusTotal). Submit false positive reports with relevant file details.
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desktop
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1
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Clear
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95