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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” )

ALYac

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

Arcabit

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

Avira

  • Avira (2015-03-20, reported qTox update as “TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen2” )

BitDefender

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

Emisoft

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

F-Secure

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

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” )

MicroWorld

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

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TrendMicro

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

Trace: • problematic_antivirus_software

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