false positive

PA 10.2.1 is reported as having 2 viruses by Webroot. VirusTotal.com reports no virus, and Malwarebytes scan reports no virus as well. Why does Webroot report a virus?

With version 1903 it is not possible to clear the log of protection history collected when false positive or real malwares are detected by this toy. One possibility is to use Powershell and see which items are listed and could be modified. To do this type Get-MpPreference.. In order to modity...

I used to use 3rd party Anti virus. I have tried AVG (not too skookum) Avira avast kaspersky eset nod plus a number of anti spyware from spybot to malware bytes Now I just use the built in Windows Defender and they are all infuriating. I use a BST dongle along with other tools that help me to...

Hi here's a alert that I received from the forum! What is this all about. i suspect it's a FP, but thought I better report it. Thanks!

In the process installing Imgburn on my Think Centre, Outpost Security Suite popped a trojan alert squawking about "Adware.OpenCandy!UQ/lkedzl9U". Several website where I've checked on it showa a relatively low detection rate, something like 4 out of 48. While I understand that tends to point...

Hello I used Filehippo's update checker and it kept flagging recuva as needing updating. However, the version it wanted to install was the vesion I had installed. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, but when I read the details of each, I had what it wanted to install. Is this called false...

Looks like a well know and reasonably popular (free) Anti-Virus product, has detected one of it's own files as a piece of malware. This or similar false positive findings seem to happen to a lot of AV vendors from time to time, this is just the most recent in a long line. Can't wait for this to...

Hey guy's, I just got a new game called Hard to be a God and it seemed to install fine "except from AVG's false win32 Heir Virus that I get on EVERY game" So I click on the game and it comes up with Insufficient privileges. You must be an administrator to run this for the first time. I...

Link Removed due to 404 Error false positive is another way of saying ‘mistake’. As applied to the field of anti-virus programs, a false positive occurs when the program mistakenly flags an innocent file as being infected. This may seem harmless enough, but false positives can be a real...

I've noticed over the past few days that my icon for network indicates No Network Available with the warning sign, but I am still connected to the internet and able to function perfectly. Seems odd to me since the other day it was actually not functioning and I had to fix it by using the...