FP in Registry Easy Cleaner

[malberto]

Hello, yesterday when I was downloading Registry Easy Cleaner from http://www.regeasycleaner.com/RegistryEasy.exe I received a notification from avast saying that it contains traces of Win32: Malware-gen. It is really a malware or a false positive?

Greetings.

[DavidR]

You could also check the offending/suspect file at: VirusTotal - Multi engine on-line virus scanner and report the findings here the URL in the Address bar of the VT results page. You can't do this with the file securely in the chest, you need to extract it to a temporary (not original) location first, see below.

Create a folder called Suspect in the C:\ drive, e.g. C:\Suspect. Now exclude that folder in the Standard Shield, Customize, Advanced, Add, type (or copy and paste) C:\Suspect\* That will stop the standard shield scanning any file you put in that folder. You should now be able to export any file in the chest to this folder and upload it to VirusTotal without avast alerting.

Check this forum as I believe this "Registry Easy Cleaner" has been in a topic recently.

[Jtaylor83]

This site is bad.

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/regeasycleaner.com

hpHosts found that this site is used for fake security applications. So the detections are correct.

Please disable the download link by replacing http with hxxp.

[YoKenny]

This site is bad.

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/regeasycleaner.com

hpHosts found that this site is used for fake security applications. So the detections are correct.

Please disable the download link by replacing http with hxxp.

Note: forum.hosts-file.net is down for maintenance:
http://hphosts.blogspot.com/2009/12/hphosts-forums-and-fspamlist-blog.html