Detecting Steam Game .EXE's as Trojans

[simonsimpleton 0]

Over night ESET seems to now want to class quite of few of the steam game .exe's I've had installed for a while as Win64/Agent.BGH Trojans. I was unaware of any update that could have caused ESET to behave like this and I was wondering if others are having a similar problem.
Some of the game .exe's in question are Beat Saber, Valheim, Vrchat, Risk of Rain 2. etc.

[Marcos 5,281]

It was a false positive. You can either restore the file(s) from quarantine manually yourself or wait a bit and the file(s) will be restored automatically.

[simonsimpleton 0]

Good to know, I did think it was quite odd. Thank you! ^^

[Morogan 0]

Same issue here, but manually restoring from quarantine doesn't work as the engine instantly re-detects the files as trojans and quaranteens them again. "Restore and exclude from scanning" option is grayed out for each of the files, so that can't be used, either.

[Rossos 0]

Greetings.

I have a similar situation. Eset started deleting my steam game *.exes.

However the Information text it provided referred to iType.exe trying to access those.

Below is the exported xml

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ESET>
  <LOG>
    <RECORD>
      <COLUMN NAME="Time">11/04/2022 15:47:32</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Scanner">Real-time file system protection</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Object type">file</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Object">C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\HiddenFolks\Hidden Folks.exe</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Detection">Win64/Agent.BGH trojan</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Action">cleaned by deleting</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="User">Rossos</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Information">Event occurred during an attempt to access the file by the application: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center\itype.exe (B9464FBB05B0F74B2B14FFC3F53903051CCC1B47).</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Hash">F41D3EF15B10DBAC12AB76EFE8F4F763F9AF8951</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="First seen here">28/09/2018 19:52:42</COLUMN>
    </RECORD>
    <RECORD>
      <COLUMN NAME="Time">11/04/2022 15:47:33</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Scanner">Real-time file system protection</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Object type">file</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Object">C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\House Flipper\HouseFlipper.exe</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Detection">Win64/Agent.BGH trojan</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Action">cleaned by deleting</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="User">Rossos</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Information">Event occurred during an attempt to access the file by the application: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center\itype.exe (B9464FBB05B0F74B2B14FFC3F53903051CCC1B47).</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="Hash">2B2BD3D76E9487C3A34E8AB531C878DBC8ED3DFF</COLUMN>
      <COLUMN NAME="First seen here">25/03/2022 17:31:36</COLUMN>
    </RECORD>
 </LOG>
</ESET>

Edit: Upon computer scan another steam exe was detected:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ESET>
  <LOG>
    <RECORD>
      <COLUMN NAME="Log">C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Train Valley 2\TrainValley2.exe - Win64/Agent.BGH trojan - cleaned by deleting [1]</COLUMN>
    </RECORD>
 </LOG>
</ESET>

Please advice.

Edited April 11, 2022 by Rossos