kickstart.txt Joomla false positive?

Domains and Hosting
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I received this excerpt from an OVH email:

... Here are the malicious files we have detected:

  • administrator/components/com_akeebabackup/installers/kickstart.txt ....

I am not the only one who has received this notification: https://forum.joomla.fr/forum/joomla-6-x/extensions-tierces-ac/2075294-akeebab-ovh-kickstart-txt

Can you verify that it is a false positive?
Thanks

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Hi @ThierryT1

The kickstart.txt file is part of the Akeeba Backup installation and is not malicious. OVH detected it because it contains PHP code inside a .txt file, and its security system views it as a strange alteration.

If you still don’t trust it, run a security scanner on your website (for example, Sucuri’s) to confirm there’s nothing else.

Hope that helped :slight_smile:
Sergio Turpín

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Hello @ThierryT1

If you have received an alert for a confirmed false positive, do not hesitate to contact support so that an escalation can be made at this level.

Astérix

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Yes, thank you

5

Done, thanks :slight_smile:

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Feel free to share the ticket number :wink:

Astérix