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Title: why avast shows different results in scanning a same exe
Post by: jraju on March 13, 2019, 02:17:55 PM

Hi, i am using kitty.exe , a ssh client.
The avast  in home scan found this as a virus, where as , the avast report on Virustotal.com gives it green mark. How the same search engine give different results.
Both results are supplied herewith.
i have writtent to official site for clarification and got the clarification.
is it a false positive, that my home scan result shows
please say,
see this page for virustotal scan results
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/ed54f0f696a2e89f7166e5406e5494fb9ae1f77f41f4312c8156b22b69863342/analysis/1548262830/
and see the result of avast scan on home pc as attached

Title: Re: why avast shows different results in scanning a same exe
Post by: tomsc on March 13, 2019, 03:41:52 PM

The Avast antivirus product on your home pc comes with various shields and therefore various layers of protection. Avast on virustotal is providing only basic file scanning.

Title: Re: why avast shows different results in scanning a same exe
Post by: Pondus on March 13, 2019, 03:53:41 PM

when using VirusTotal always note the scan date at top of scan result

2019-01-23 17:00:30 UTC ( 1 month, 2 weeks ago )
So in your case a cached result (somone have uploaded and scanned that file before you)

A fresh scan give this result
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/ed54f0f696a2e89f7166e5406e5494fb9ae1f77f41f4312c8156b22b69863342/detection


also if you use the new VT website then there is a BLUE button at top right (after scanning) clicking that give you a "rescan" option if scan result is old
You can see this blue button in my scan result posted above

New website  https://www.virustotal.com/
Old website   https://www.virustotal.com/en/

Title: Re: why avast shows different results in scanning a same exe
Post by: jraju on March 15, 2019, 01:19:09 PM

Hi, Pondus, i have checked , and avast does not give any red rating. The scan result was furnished by the developers of the program . i have written to them first, why their program is found to be having some problem with avast antivirus and malware bytes.
He has replied that 2/68 was the rating of virus total . I found avast , giving the program green signal. This prompted me to write to this forum.
is it a false positive then for this program for me. please

Title: Re: why avast shows different results in scanning a same exe
Post by: Pondus on March 15, 2019, 02:37:55 PM

My info was only about VirusTotal and how it worked

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is it a false positive then for this program for me. please

If you think avast is giving you a false positive, then report it to avast lab
Only avast lab can answer why they detect / not detect

Report a false positive (select file or website)
https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php