false positives

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 everyone, Tonight, we implemented CloudFlare, which uses its own content delivery network and content processing. Were the site to go down, content would continue to be available for a number of days, even if our servers that process that data goes down. This is not the first time that we...

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...

Describes a problem in the leak check tool in Application Verifier in which false-positive results are constantly generrated when a well-behaved driver is being tested and Application Verifier is enabled. Link Removed

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...

First, I don't know if this is the right place to ask this one but since Avira's website offers absolutely no help at all, I'm going to try. After yesterday's update (03-31), Avira started scanning as usual. This time however, it started giving an extreme ammount of virus report. Basicly, it...

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...

INSECURITY OUTFIT Avast yesterday released an update that caused its antivirus software to report scores of clean, legitimate software programs as being riddled with malware. According to a blog post by the company, the bad false positive issue came about following an update sent out around...

Are there any risks using the free products versus the purchased products? I have used a variety of the free products and each has produced some false positives. Not sure of they have missed any viruses or not.

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...

I was wondering what others have experinced with this. The first time I ran it under Win 7 7127, it found 78 System Optimisations, and 6350 Security Defense isuses;!! Even if half of them are false positievs, that is unbeleiveable! :eek: