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I have been using Sophos Anti-Virus on the Mac for several years now with good results. Recently when attempting to download the new MAMP Pro 4.x, I received a Sophos alert that the MAMP installer contains the Adminer Database Manager, which it identifies as known Adware and PUA.

Has anyone experienced a similar warning, and is there any reason for concern about this warning?

The only real information I can find about Adminer is this:

http://philipdowner.com/2012/01/using-adminer-with-mamp-on-mac-os-x/

This post indicates that Adminer is some type of script designed to be an alternative to PHPMyAdmin.

Can I just remove Adminer after installing?

-- Lee

Lee Honeycutt
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I got the same warning and also Google Chrome flags the MAMP 4 PKG file as having a virus. It appears that the official download of Adminer throws the same warning by Sophos (from their website):

https://www.adminer.org/

So, this issue is NOT related to MAMP itself but rather the Adminer application. I think it's a false positive since from what I've seen Sophos is the only antivirus software that flags adminer.php, however you CAN remove the file Applications/MAMP/bin/adminer.php without affecting functionality of MAMP, since as you point out it is just a phpMyAdmin alternative. I simply deleted it for now.

That said, if you upgrade MAMP the file will likely be replaced.

nocabt
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    Out of curiosity I contacted appsolute, maker of MAMP, and they confirmed it was a false-positive only affecting Sophos. – nocabt Sep 14 '16 at 14:08
  • Thanks! I though of contacting the maker of MAMP, but I couldn't figure out how. No contact link on the website. – Lee Honeycutt Sep 14 '16 at 20:32
  • No problem! Glad I could help. I just replied to the order email I got when I purchased MAMP Pro. I'm relatively new to Stack Exchange but I think you're supposed to mark this one solved I believe, if you don't mind. – nocabt Sep 16 '16 at 13:59