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Hitman Pro detects Registry Backup as a Trojan
« on: September 01, 2012, 08:44:47 pm »
Someone who downloaded RegBack wrote the above.  Could it be a false positive?  http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/registry_backup.html

Looking forward to your reply Shane. 

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Re: Hitman Pro detects Registry Backup as a Trojan
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2012, 08:48:37 pm »
Sure is a false positive. :smiley:

All they need to do is sumbit it to their AV and they will see it is a false positive and update their virus def's to fix it :wink:

You will see that a few lesser known AV's flag it with the "GEN" which stand for generic. Which is almost always a false positive. You will notice none of the bigger well known AV's flag it :wink:

https://www.virustotal.com/file/766d13d3399b774e9472419f66e53c7896955417b4dab1f7c996c62a66fd5c79/analysis/1346557580/

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Re: Hitman Pro detects Registry Backup as a Trojan
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2012, 09:44:46 pm »
That's what I thought.  It was posted on Wilders Scurity Forum.  I did already make a post on Wilders (Hitman Pro) thread regarding this.  Just waiting their reply. 

PS: I downloaded RegBack, scanned with Avast! free and MBAM free and these scans were clean.

Thanks Shane for getting back to me so fast! 

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Re: Hitman Pro detects Registry Backup as a Trojan
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2012, 10:09:15 pm »
Thanks and no problem :wink:

v1.4.0 of the reg backup will be out tomorrow :-)

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Re: Hitman Pro detects Registry Backup as a Trojan
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2012, 03:14:02 am »
This time Hitman Pro has killed an innocent.  :evil:
« Last Edit: September 02, 2012, 03:16:03 am by neroilo »

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Re: Hitman Pro detects Registry Backup as a Trojan
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2012, 03:52:50 pm »
This is the reply I got from the author of HitmanPro: 
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Originally Posted by markloman
I've checked it but none of the files are flagged as malicious or suspicious by HitmanPro.

On VirusTotal, the detection of the setup file tweaking.com_registry_backup_setup.exe is 2/42, both false positives (by Antiy-AVL and ByteHero):
https://www.virustotal.com/file/bbf5...5c4c/analysis/

The detection of the main executable TweakingRegistryBackup.exe is 0/42:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/d346...827b/analysis/


You can safely use the program.
post 4679:  http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=236732&page=188
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Re: Hitman Pro detects Registry Backup as a Trojan
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2012, 04:04:25 pm »
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You can safely use the program.
  :artist:

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