Comment by ameshkov | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ameshkov | Hacker News Reader

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The issue is resolved now, the repo is available again.

We have not received any response to the support case that we opened, but we assume that it was a false positive of some automatic algorithm.

As a consequence of this we're going to set up a mirror outside Github so that the work didn't stop if something like that happens again.

UPD: We received the official response explaining that this was a mistake. I must admit the whole situation was resolved really quickly, good job.

You may have a free-for-life account which will allow you to:

  ssh user@rsync.net git clone mirror git://github.com/blah/blah

Just email us.

They're using github as an HTTP CDN, are you saying that rsync.net now supports this use case?

We don't use GH as a CDN, it's used solely for developing filter lists and issue reports.

This does seem like exactly the sort of thing that would trigger false positives. The product is fundamentally a list of a bunch of text found in malware, so any sort of malware detector that's based on the textual content seems likely to give a false positive.

*in phishing, not in malware. Adguard domains are unlikely to be found in malware.

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