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I know Krebs on Security is a well-known website, but when I run Virustotal, it comes back with malware found.  That often happens on VT for sites that I don’t actually think are infected.  Are these examples of false positives???  How would I know?

I wanted to go to Krebs the other day and check something, but…. I don’t know….thanks. Donna

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92 / 93 security vendors say it is OK. The one that flagged it is Quttera and I’m sure something similar happened when I checked out a different site the other day. Maybe Quttera have a problem with false positives.

Windows 10 Home 22H2, Acer Aspire TC-1660 desktop + LibreOffice, non-techie

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Yeah I guess.  That happens a lot when I use VT and then I don’t know if the site is safe or not! So it is with false positives. But Krebs has to be safe, right???

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I completely agree with Paul T below.

Windows 10 Home 22H2, Acer Aspire TC-1660 desktop + LibreOffice, non-techie

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Krebs has a solid reputation and I would have no qualms going there.

cheers, Paul

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I just ran the site through Virustotal and got a 0/93 score, so Quttera has changed their settings or definitions with regards to Brian’s site. The hits were probably old, as in from a couple of years ago. Here’s the link to the results I obtained:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/85b28a64578b375d8456b56d0b2978a3c7d36dd1a74fb5da4c5468398ea37b73?nocache=1

It should open in a new tab so you don’t have to leave AskWoody. This post is being written at 10:35 AM, server time (Central Standard Time).

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Thank you for your feedback and yes, that link comes back with no malware found.

This is weird – I am still getting malware found  for Quttera, assuming I have correct urls for Krebs and VT https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

https://krebsonsecurity.com/

If I manually type in http://www.krebsonsecurity.com – it comes back clean.  I went to Krebs wikipedia and checked the official link there – it is the same as the one above without www and comes back with 1 malware.  I will just use www when going there…..

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