- #Win32 malware gen false positive avg .exe
- #Win32 malware gen false positive avg update
- #Win32 malware gen false positive avg Pc
Hope that this helps with the next iterations of my exe so that it stays clean.
#Win32 malware gen false positive avg Pc
I got a feedback by email within one day that it is ok, and the scanner on my pc agrees with this now. More recently Kaspersky conducted an experiment during a press conference. Hispasec, the makers of VirusTotal, also talked about this issue in their blog post aptly named Antivirus Rumorology. Other scanners have similar feedback lines. I’ve covered the impact that automated detection systems have on false positives in the past. I do not understand how this entered in my system. This looks to be some kind of unknown virus. There are chances that AVG generates some false positive alert while scanning. There are regular popups and I found it a bit irritating.
Avira put that file into quarantine since it was considered potentially dangerous (due to heuristics, which means that some segments look typical for a virus, but no virus is actually found). I think Avast gets a little too far ahead of its self trying to detect viruses 'in the wild'. I had a similar problem with a pyinstaller exe under Windows.
#Win32 malware gen false positive avg .exe
exe launcher that it created won't be considered a Trojan? Is there anything else I can do with PyInstaller to make it so that the. Hopefully they will back off on whatever it is that they thought they were trying to detect. exe file in question to AVG for their analysis. but still I'm concerned that it is not just AVG giving a false positive. Now I can't say that these other scanners are ones that I have heard of before. Rising Malware.Generic.5!tfe (thunder:5:ujHAaqkyw6C)ĬrowdStrike Falcon (ML) malicious_confidence_93% (D)Įndgame malicious (high confidence) 20170503
SentinelOne (Static ML) static engine - malicious Which shows that 11 out of 61 scanners detect a problem: TheHacker Trojan/Agent.am
exe file to VirusTotal I get this analysis: At first I just thought it was a false positive in AVG, but submitting the. exe file used to start the program (in the folder created by PyInstaller that has all of the Python "guts").
#Win32 malware gen false positive avg update
My AVG Business Edition AntiVirus just started complaining with today's update that the program has an SCGeneric Trojan Horse in the main. About a month ago, I used PyInstaller and Inno Setup to produce an installer for my Python 3 script.