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Virus False Positive ? - Winrar

jhickey — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:22:41 GMT

I flipped on Virus Filtering today and within 5 minutes got my first potential false positive.

Any reason why it would think Winrar.exe is a Virus ?

http://www.win-rar.com/downloads//rar/wrar400.exe

It thought it was Trojan-GameThief/Win32.magania.flfe

I immediate shut off virus filtering. I cant be dealing with tons of false positives. Unless this is really a virus, which I doubt.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Justin

Re: Virus False Positive ? - Winrar

fredallee — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:33:02 GMT

Thanks Justin. Can you call or email support with this info, so that they can verify it and potentially open up a case to track it?

Thanks,

Alfred

Re: Virus False Positive ? - Winrar

jhickey — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:52:08 GMT

Ok, I've done that. If users have any insights on how often false positives happens I would love to hear it. Can I turn AV back on without worrying about tons of false positives. We have a group of people here who are very sensitive to Internet access being blocked incorrectly.