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Windows Defender False Positives?
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December 15, 2019 at 6:29 pm #2019887
RetiredGeek
AskWoody MVPHey Y’all,
Yesterday I got this:
Actually I got 3 of them. They are all shortcut files that I created. I scanned again with Defender and got the same thing. I scanned with Malwarebytes Premium and no issues.So I tried a scan with Defender offline and it all went away. Go figure. 😎
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December 16, 2019 at 4:25 am #2020041
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December 16, 2019 at 4:39 am #2020046
Speccy
AskWoody LoungerCan’t tell for sure, but it might be a false positive (bitstream scanning of a container format or the content of an object file being incorrectly flagged as a virus).
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December 16, 2019 at 11:59 am #2020223
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AskWoody MVPI also get false positives on Process Hacker on occasion and have to restore it from quarantine, then all is well once more. Malwarebytes 4.04 doesn’t see it as a threat.
Create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates, in case you need to start over!"When you're troubleshooting, start with the simple and proceed to the complex."—M.O. Johns"Experience is what you get when you're looking for something else."—Sir Thomas Robert Deware -
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