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Offline Zoart666

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Steam monster hunter false positive?
« on: August 23, 2020, 03:05:07 PM »
I was downloading monster hunter world through steam after a fresh windows install.

as it was downloading, it gave off an alert "GFSDK_SSAO.win64.dll" is seen as win64:malware-gen.

I assume this is a false positive?
« Last Edit: August 23, 2020, 03:09:37 PM by Zoart666 »

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Re: Steam monster hunter false positive?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2020, 03:13:13 PM »
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Re: Steam monster hunter false positive?
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2020, 03:38:35 PM »
I would say it is a FP.

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Re: Steam monster hunter false positive?
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2020, 03:41:03 PM »
I would say it is a FP.

I see, I wonder what triggered it though. Seeing that it's not exactly a new file in general
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Re: Steam monster hunter false positive?
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2020, 07:16:25 AM »
I would say it is a FP.

It seems a lot of people are having this pop up, from killing floor and Witcher 3, I have it happen on monster hunter.

Seems a wide spread fp then.

But I guess I want more of a confirmation that it's a FP as I did send it for analysis through avast as well.