False Positives in antivirus-programs

Anyone else have Cisco's Spark (or updater for it, Launcher.exe) being flagged/quarantined? (360TS repeatedly quarantines launcher.exe, applicable to updating spark, even though I whitelist it and restore it)

Hello all of you guys,
 

Thanks for this information . its great information

This topic will be used to post false positives in Anti-virus/Anti-malware programs so that end-users know not to fix the particular entries that may be shown.

Note: A separate reporting area specifically dedicated for AdwCleaner can be found in this topic...AdwCleaner False Positive Reporting Topic

Thanks. I didn't realize the topic existed. 

Edited by JohnC_21, 23 February 2017 - 04:59 PM.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/640521/66-files-infected-by-vbs-malwale-gen-2-detected-my-avast/#entry4185490

Seems to relate to the avast bunch of F/P's recently. Just needs an update or reinstall the program, then update.

I left a link to the avast forum where they discussed it.

The consensus among most experts is that if 90% of the results of an online file analysis (VirusTotal, Jotti's virusscan, VirSCAN, Hybrid-Analysis, etc) indicate a file submission is clean, then you can disregard the other detection(s) as a false positive...especially if the detection is more generic, suspicious, potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) and/or was made by any of the lesser known security vendors. This is typically due to the security program's heuristic analysis engine which provides the ability to detect possible new variants of malware.
 
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