Most virus scanners (I'd say nearly all) focus on Windows-based software. Results for Linux based software could very easily come up as false positives simply because what the scan engines are looking at is not what they think they're looking at under typical circumstances.

Viruses and malware, while not absolutely absent from Linux environments, are also not nearly as common as they are in Windows-based PC environments.

When well-known software (regardless of OS platform) becomes infected, and it has happened, but rarely, word spreads like wildfire in the tech press and on forums such as these.

For Linux based programs of wide renown unless there's some online chatter about an issue I would assume safety. I assume safety for that matter for Windows-based programs of wide renown sourced directly from their makers, though virtually any security suite will scan the exe or msi installers when you download them anyway. You can always run a VirusTotal scan afterward if you want to be really, really careful. But it is not unusual for the odd scanner or two to flag something that the majority of the scanners don't. When the odd few scan positive and the majority come back with a clean result, I always presume false positives on the part of the odd-scanners-out.

 

When the odd few scan positive and the majority come back with a clean result, I always presume false positives on the part of the odd-scanners-out.

I tend to agree with this as well, especially if they are the more obscure and unknown scanners as opposed to the big names.

 

The file is not signed but Spacejock holds a copyright on it.

I'm not familiar with hybrid-analysis.com so I can't comment on that.

It it were me and I really wanted that program I'd probably go for it but as I said before there are no guarantees.

 

The file is not signed but Spacejock holds a copyright on it.

I'm not familiar with hybrid-analysis.com so I can't comment on that.

It it were me and I really wanted that program I'd probably go for it but as I said before there are no guarantees.

Thanks Cookiegal. I'm going to download it tomorrow morning. I appreciate all your help.

 

You might think about installing it in a sandbox, like Sandboxie, to see if you like it.

 

Thanks Johnny. But then how would I determine if the software was clean or not? Would it be just if it started showing signs of dysfunctionality or my anti-virus flagged something? I've been looking at it and it looks really good but I'm wondering if I really need it for this.

 

You're welcome.