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Other => Viruses and worms => Topic started by: dadude770 on March 25, 2012, 04:32:25 AM

Title: False positive?
Post by: dadude770 on March 25, 2012, 04:32:25 AM

Just wanted to make sure that I did'nt have malware. So uh, avast system shields blocked  Win32:Malware-gen. BUT, it was from a very legit program known as steam! The process was SteamService.exe by the way.

Title: Re: False positive?
Post by: Pondus on March 25, 2012, 04:48:19 AM

have you tested the file at Virustotal ?
have you sendt file to avast lab ?

Title: Re: False positive?
Post by: dadude770 on March 25, 2012, 05:00:53 AM

How may I upload the file to virustotal? Also,Avast? EDIT: Virus total detected 0/0 so Im sure its a false positive.

Title: Re: False positive?
Post by: Asyn on March 25, 2012, 05:30:07 AM

Quote from: dadude770 on March 25, 2012, 05:00:53 AM

How may I upload the file to virustotal? Also,Avast? EDIT: Virus total detected 0/0 so Im sure its a false positive.

What's your VPS version..?? This should have been fixed already.

You can report a possible FP here: http://www.avast.com/contact-form.php?loadStyles