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There were / are some antiviruses that mark Tox clients as false positive.

Please make sure that you did get Tox from official Tox website.

If your antivirus is not on a list, you may want to report it. Please also report problem to your antivirus makers.

List of problematic antiviruses

Ad-Aware

  • Ad-Aware (2015-06-13, reported qTox as “Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9” )
  • Contact LavaSoft

AegisLab

ALYac

  • ALYac (2015-06-13, reported qTox as “Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9” )
  • Contact ALYac

Arcabit

  • Arcabit (2015-06-13, reported qTox as “Trojan.Adware.SMShoax.9” )
  • Contact Arcabit

Avira

BitDefender

  • BitDefender (2015-06-13, reported qTox as “Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9” )
  • Contact BitDefender

Emsisoft

  • Emsisoft (2015-06-13, reported qTox as “Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9 (B)” )
  • Contact Emsisoft

F-Secure

  • F-Secure (2015-06-13, reported qTox as “Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax” )
  • Contact F-Secure

GData

  • GData (2014-11-12, reported qTox updater as “Virus: Gen:Variant.Kazy.205528” )
  • GData (2015-06-13, reported qTox as “Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9” )
  • Contact GData

Ikarus

Jiangmin

  • Jiangmin (2016-06-13, reported qTox installer as “Trojan.MSIL.axpe”)
  • Virus Scan
  • Contact Jiangmin (Email addresses have self-explanatory English names)

Kapersky

Micro-World

  • MicroWorld-eScan (2015-06-13, reported qTox as “Gen:Variant.Adware.SMShoax.9” )
  • Contact MicroWorld

Panda Free Antivirus

Rising

Trend Micro

  • TrendMicro (2014-11-12, reported qTox installer as “PAK_Generic.005” )
  • TrendMicro-HouseCall (2014-11-12, reported qTox installer as “PAK_Generic.005” )
  • Contact Trend Micro

Zillya

Trace: • problematic_antivirus_software

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