False Positive Guide
Detection claims can become stale, exaggerated, or context-free. A false-positive guide helps users interpret status labels without assuming every warning is perfect or every clean label is permanent.
Why False Positives Happen
Status feeds can lag behind current builds, vendors can change packaging, and different detection methods can produce different outcomes for the same executor over time.
That means a single detection label should be treated as a point-in-time signal, not an eternal truth.
How The Site Should Communicate Detection State
Detection labels should always appear next to freshness information such as the last external update date or last local review timestamp.
When data quality is uncertain, the page should say so explicitly rather than showing a hard label with no context.
Why This Matters For Trust
Explaining uncertainty makes the product look more credible, not less. Users trust sites more when they disclose the limits of their own information instead of overselling certainty.