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Have you encountered a false positive verdict for Palo Alto Networks (Known Signatures) on VirusTotal? Use this forum to submit a verdict change request. Change requests should include the File Hash, Link to VirusTotal report, current VirusTotal verdict, and description.
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VirusTotal Verdict Change Request for False Positive

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This forum is here to enable those who are not Palo Alto Networks customers to submit a false positive verdict change request for a Palo Alto Networks verdict on VirusTotal. (i.e. malware or malicious

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Resolved! False Positive Removal Request

Hi,

 

Could you please white-list our software installer as it's marked as generic.pup on virustotal.com website which should be a false-positive.

 

File Hash: aea8aec67ad19182886c303a4529eb7b8207112aec6806e1aa686e52116c03be

Current VT Verdict: generic.pu

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Resolved! False Positive Removal Request

Hi,

 

Could you please white-list our software installer as it's marked as generic.pup on virustotal.com website which should be a false-positive.

 

File Hash: 012de50556f62146c28d8bc1265efd8885e2312af8350ee94f0f48c2f9f8e1ea

Current VT Verdict: generic.pu

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Palo Alto appliance FP detections

I have come across numerous FPs. I am curious how the Palo Alto appliance alerts on files. The Threat Vault shows a file hash and a Virus total link generally. The files triggering signatures have nothing in common with the signatures often so I woul...

Resolved! FP Removal request

Hi there,

 

Can I ask you to reanalyse this file and remove from detection please?

 

Thanks.

Resolved! False positive detection "generic.ml"

Hello.
We have checked our software on VirusTotal and see false positive detections (generic.ml).
File Hash: 3c708afa2e1e50cdfc41f4ad233206969f20fef3
Current VT Verdict: generic.ml
Description: False positive detection in Safebytes_Anti-Malware.exe with

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Resolved! false positvie for a ruler for windows

virus total is reporting a false positive ( Palo Alto Networks (Known Signatures) - generic.pup ) for my program, a ruler for windows.   The program does not include malware, and none of the other 60 engines used by Virustotal are flagging it as malw

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Resolved! generic.ml believed false positive

The most recent installer 1,3 installer for php 5.5 of: https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/wincache-extension is flagged as a virus. I belive this is wrong. Download available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wincache/files/wincache-1.3.7/

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jabbera by • L0 Member
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Resolved! False Positive Removal Request

Hi,

 

Could you please white-list our software installers as there’re marked as generic.pup on virustotal.com website which should be a false-positive.

 

File Hash: c324f1f4904389346b2666078c120c06a8d97b70be2d9b618a1c29ead6a4ef26

Current VT Verdict: gener

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Resolved! Other false positive removal request

Greetings,


We have checked our software on VirusTotal and see other 8 false positive detections (generic.pup). The latest reports from VT are: 

 

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/88ec8d191565b5e6c64965f61b8a03154423e3b7b378339f0b45cd245618593b/analysi

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Resolved! Virus total false positive, dll-files.com Client

Hi, 

 

We recently noticed a flag on our software at virustotal.com from your company. I believe this is a false positive. 

Our product is developed with strict security in mind and we've been promoting our brand online since 1998, first software in 201

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Resolved! VirusTotal False positives

Greetings,

 

We have recently noticed some of our software showing as "generic.pup" on Virustotal by your program Palo Alto Networks (known signatures)

 

Paretologic PC Health Advisor foreign language installers:

 

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e9a6a1

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pbirch by • L0 Member
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Resolved! False Positive submission

Hello,

 

Our software updater ARMupdt.exe has been flagged as 'generic.pup' by Palo Alto Networks version 20170403, as discovered on virustotal.com: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/71334cacc6b943e20628acdf2fc521d142e73da27e8aa397f54dfda4d57d0d8c/ana

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gdmdata by • L0 Member
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Virus Total PaloAltoNetworks FALSE POSITIVE

Based on VirusTotal results,  PaloAltoNetworks  reports http://www.dol.gr/helioskiosk.gr/PCReader/HeliosInstaller.exe as a virus.   We are  sure the file is secure, so we think it is a False Positive.   We would appreciate any guidance on the matter....

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Resolved! False Positive for IWsIMF_AV.exe

Dear Sir or Madam,
 
This is Maggie from IObit.
 
You have mistakenly detected the file IWsIMF_AV.exe in IObit Malware Fighter v5 as threats. It is a false positive.  It will bring troubles to both our users and affect our reputation.
 
 
Please check detai
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Resolved! False Positive Removal Request

Greetings,


We have checked our software on VirusTotal and see false positive detections (generic.pup).

File Hash: b3dee21b8f7f4e7c6d37c70bb37222ffa4415c7e0fe61ace1a22cd2b60a3c8cc
Current VT Verdict: generic.pup
Description: False positive detection in pc

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