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My antivirus program claims |app| is a virus/trojan?
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Your antivirus program is wrong. Antivirus programs use heuristics, patterns of code that "looks suspicuous" to detect viruses. It's rather like racial profiling. |app| is a completely open source product. You can actually browse the source code yourself (or hire someone to do it for you) to verify that it is not a virus. Please report the false identification to whatever company you buy your antivirus software from. If the antivirus program is preventing you from downloading/installing |app|, disable it temporarily, install |app| and then re-enable it.
The first thing to check is that you are downloading |app| from the official
website: `<http://calibre-ebook.com/download>`_. |app| is a very popular program
and unscrupulous people try to setup websites offering it for download to fool
the unwary.
If you have the official download and your antivirus program is still claiming
|app| is a virus, then, your antivirus program is wrong. Antivirus programs use
heuristics, patterns of code that "look suspicious" to detect viruses. It's
rather like racial profiling. |app| is a completely open source product. You
can actually browse the source code yourself (or hire someone to do it for you)
to verify that it is not a virus. Please report the false identification to
whatever company you buy your antivirus software from. If the antivirus program
is preventing you from downloading/installing |app|, disable it temporarily,
install |app| and then re-enable it.
How do I backup |app|?
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