Does Jellyfin portable has a virus?
reddit / selfhosted

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ggRavingGamer · 2023-12-21 11:40

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2c9096c0dcffd38610a3a1d862610b38b8
6a8e8195475ad608e973033c4e10d5

This is the virustotal link. 5/62
Maybe it's a false positive?

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Legitimate_Farm_3095 · 2023-12-21 11:58

i would ask this on the official jellyfin forum. *if* it's true they
would probably want to know about it, if they don't already

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mrkesu · 2023-12-21 12:34

r/jellyfin

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rbatersi · 2023-12-21 12:38

The sub is read only now.

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borjazombi · 2023-12-21 12:42

Where did you download that file? Because the official Jellyfin
website only lists .tar.gz files, not .zip files.

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mrkesu · 2023-12-21 12:42

Ah

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ggRavingGamer · 2023-12-21 12:47

https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/server/windows/stable/

combined/jellyfin_10.8.13.zip   application/zip         133743179
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 23:01:42 -0500

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CheesecakeNo7 · 2023-12-21 13:03

I would say it's a false positive, pretty common with software like
Jellyfin that does a lot of interactions with the file system and the
network.

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borjazombi · 2023-12-21 13:03

Ah, I was looking at [https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/server/portab
le/stable/](https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/server/portable/stable/
)

It's most likely a false positive, due to some system .dll inside the
zip, but check with the guys at r/jellyfin

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Conscious-Fault-8800 · 2023-12-21 13:26

Very probably false positive.

I have never heard about these 5 security vendors that give a warning
report. And the  Antivirus companies that i know and are reputable all
report green checkmarks.

Also, 2 of the 5 warnings seem to be about NSSM, which is a service
manager for Windows, allowing jellyfin to be easily run as a windows
service. There \*might\* be malwares that also use NSSM, but usage of
NSSM is far from a security threat on its own.

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nitsky416 · 2023-12-21 13:34

And literally says go use the forums

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kitanokikori · 2023-12-21 14:03

It looks like Jellyfin uses NSSM (https://nssm.cc), which is not a
virus, but enough viruses / malware have started to use it that virus
scanners are picking it up. It should be fine.

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bombero_kmn · 2023-12-21 16:04

For reference, that sub is read only and the jellyfin forum is the new
medium for communicating.

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borjazombi · 2023-12-21 16:06

oops, thanks.

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emprahsFury · 2023-12-21 17:42

So is this what we want on the sub? Jellyfin is self histed software,
but it seems the people of r/self-hosted want to send legit questions
off on a goose chase?

We're really just a glorified telephone switch if all we do is post a
link to another sub (which itself was set read by by the devs and
requires another hop off Reddit) Why are we here if not to answer
these questions?

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djgizmo · 2023-12-22 05:19

Because sometimes the best answer is from the source.