Guest mimi Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Hi! I recently installed ESET Internet Security on my laptop from the official site, but since I am paranoid about such things I scanned the installer .exe file on VirusTotal and a detection showed up marking it as a Trojan. Here is the link for the analysis: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c9fbdbe295780bf6a97731418a8f40affac055f397597d6f0019ce3c121786c9 Could this be a false positive? What does it mean, why would this show up? I had my laptop checked by a specialist and he confirmed that I did in fact download the correct installer etc. Link to comment
Administrators Marcos 5,407 Posted January 27, 2023 Administrators Share Posted January 27, 2023 Yes, definitely FP. Link to comment
Guest mimi Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Do you know maybe why it would flag it that way? I don't understand how something like this would get a detection at all and I'm worried that maybe I did in fact download the wrong file? Link to comment
Administrators Marcos 5,407 Posted January 27, 2023 Administrators Share Posted January 27, 2023 I assume it's an detection automatically generated by a system which is too aggressive. Probably the fact that the executable downloaded a file from the Internet and had an invalid signature (it gets assembled from various parts before the download which breaks the signature) was enough to generate the detection. Link to comment
Guest mimi Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Oh and sorry, did you look at the details in VT? Link to comment
itman 1,790 Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 1 hour ago, Guest mimi said: Oh and sorry, did you look at the details in VT? This only AV solution to flag it at VT is DrWeb. It's a false positive detection. Link to comment
Guest mimi Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 Are you sure? Did I download the correct file? Maybe this could be reported to DrWeb? I shouldn't have to be worried if an AV gave me a virus itself... Link to comment
ESET Moderators Aryeh Goretsky 390 Posted January 28, 2023 ESET Moderators Share Posted January 28, 2023 Hello, ESET will notify Dr. Web, but it is going to be up to them to implement a fix in their detection logic. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment
ESET Moderators Aryeh Goretsky 390 Posted January 29, 2023 ESET Moderators Share Posted January 29, 2023 Hello, I have just heard that it has been fixed. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment
Recommended Posts