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Offline Woghole

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malware scan
« on: October 22, 2014, 06:34:13 am »
I just did scan of my system and a trojan.generic came up in windows repair tool

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Re: malware scan
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2014, 08:14:09 am »
send the file to emsisoft to fix the False positive http://support.emsisoft.com/

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Re: malware scan
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2014, 11:51:32 am »
Any file that is marked as a Generic virus is a false positive. As you can see here the program is safe just like it always has been

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/454738ef7eb1e518bfbd121a7f294ec5368da02f9276ac7d70fe45d3e6a84ccc/analysis/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/bd738e9ee4dd80740abbdd77eedbf7c14ec255b754514f29848be68921ef97c7/analysis/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0f83f1eee915828ba37bc23beb15ec2d6b7c7ff34dbe2bfc4fe7d3d3174cf248/analysis/

Just submit the file to your av and they will update their virus defs to remove the false positive :wink:

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Re: malware scan
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2014, 12:02:42 pm »
Its been sent into the av people and told its a F/P, Thank you  all for the replies .

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Re: malware scan
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2014, 12:03:22 pm »
No problem, and thanks for sending it to them, means I dont have to now lol

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Re: malware scan
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2014, 12:05:34 pm »
 no problem cheers.