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False positive is the case where the positive result of a test doesn't correspond to reality. It can lead to the wrong decision.

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Tensorflow high false-positive rate and non-max-suppression issue

I am training Tensorflow Object detection on Windows 10using faster_rcnn_inception_v2_coco as pretrained model. I'm on Windows 10, with tensorflow-gpu 1.6 on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, CUDA 9.0 and CUDNN 7.0. My dataset contain only one object,…
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Py2Exe application flagged as malware by Windows Defender; what to do?

I have an application I wrote for my company in Python 2.x, PyQT4, and MySQLdb and packaged with py2exe. Recently, I made some updates to the application, Porting it to Python 3.4 and PySide. I also removed the MySQLdb dependencies and added…
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Google Chrome: File is malicious

But Its a lie I am facing this issue with my installer: Installer exe when downloaded from the websites in Chrome are flagged as being malicious software. To overcome this problem so far we have tried changing domain names,but its not a permanent…
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My C# app is getting flagged by anti-virus apps. How do I figure out why?

I have a C# app that is getting flagged by multiple anti-virus apps (AVG and Norton so far) as "behaving suspiciously". I don't have any experience with this, and there are lots of things I suppose could be considered "suspicious" (registry access,…
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Manually calculate AUC

How can I obtain the AUC value having fpr and tpr? Fpr and tpr are just 2 floats obtained from these formulas: my_fpr = fp / (fp + tn) my_tpr = tp / (tp + fn) my_roc_auc = auc(my_fpr, my_tpr) I know this can't pe possible, because fpr and tpr are…
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OWASP ZAP - how to "prove" false positives?

Our customer requires us to run the OWASP ZAP tool against our web application (ASP.NET 4.5.2, Webforms) and we cannot have any high priority findings in the report. We've done the analysis, and OWASP ZAP reports two vulnerabilities which both are…
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MarkLogic cts:element-query false positives?

Given this document :- T1V1 T2V2 unsurprisingly, I find that this will pull back the page in a cts:uris() :- cts:and-query(( …
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C# app appears false positive in AVG antivirus?

I have created a C# application that I've been testing on my other computer throughout the developing phase. However now that I've completed the app with few recent things that I added, the app is detected as virus (AVG doesn't show what kind of…
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How to implement fact related to false positive vs. false negative balance in neural network?

I have a yes/no classification problem, where false positives are worse than false negatives. Is there a way to implement this fact into neural network especially in MATLAB's Neural Network Toolbox?
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What kind of non-lethal code usually triggers an antivirus? (false positives)

I don't know why, but I've had no problem before and now all of a sudden, this really old, terrible, newbie program that I wrote a long time ago, triggers Malwarebytes... :( This question is not a duplicate, since the program in question is in…
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Is it OK if the false positive rate in a ROC curve does not end in 1.0?

I have the following ROC Curve: And it does not end in 1.0 because my predictions include zeros, for example prediction = [0.9, 0.1, 0.8, 0.0] For the ROC Curve, I take the top-k predictions, first {0.9}, then {0.9, 0.8} etc. And if there are no…
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Sonarqube squid:S2095 false positive

In our code base we get Sonar reports violation for rule squid:S2095 on code like the following: PreparedStatement ps = null; try { ps = connection.prepareStatement(DML); ps.setString(1, externalDeviceId); …
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How to permanently ignore a false positive in SonarQube rule violation

How does a developer ( or for that matter any authorized user ) ignore a specific coding rule violation when Sonar throws it? Say a rule “Does not follow file naming convention ” pops up , is there a way I can declare it a false positive and click…
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How to prevent application being marked as suspicious

I have a .NET application written in C# using Visual Studio 2012. I'm promoting the application through my own website and have it available for download. When downloading it in Chrome I get a message stating that my application is "not commonly…
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Rspec false positive because failure exception is rescued in code being tested

I have an rspec test that I expect to fail, but it is passing because the code that it is testing rescues the exception that rspec raises. Here's an example of the situation: class Thing do def self.method_being_tested( object ) # ... do some…
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