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Virus Total (TrendMicro) reports Virus in installers for Inkscape 1.4.2

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Summary:

After downloading the Windows 64bit .msi and .7z from the all platforms page (https://inkscape.org/release/1.4.2/windows/64-bit/) I scanned the file with www.virustotal.com

Both TrendMicro and TrendMicro-Housecall report the presense of HEUR_NAMETRICK.D

Steps to reproduce:

  1. download .msi and .7z installer.

  2. visit virustotal.com and select "File" Tab.

  3. Select one of the installer files.

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What happened?

Virus reported

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What should have happened?

No virus reported

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Sample attachments:

inkscape1-4-2-VirusTotal_msi.png

inkscape1-4-2-VirusTotal_7z.png

Version info

Version 1.4.2
inkscape-1.4.2_2025-05-13_f4327f4-x64.7z
inkscape-1.4.2_2025-05-13_f4327f4-x64.msi

Note: the .exe scans as clean.

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