

Zip/Rar with password in the e-mail body.
#REPORT FILE AS FALSE POSITIVE HOW TO#
Various: How to Report Malware or False Positives to Multiple Antivirus Vendors.McAfee VirusScan (DAT Version 5150) - Oct 26, 2007.Sunbelt - J(see Virustotal results from June 5, 2009, June 13, 2009).McAfee VirusScan (DAT Version 5797) - Nov 9, 2009.Sunbelt - (see Virustotal results from Dec 22, 2009).Symantec 2011 - (see Virustotal results from Sep 26, 2011).AntiVir - (see Virustotal results from Sep 26, 2011).Repeat the process when there is a new false positiveīolded entries are still detected by the AV!.Use False Positive Watch to get notified of changes to VirusTotal.Now this is in a zip file, this is the actual file depending on the alert. In the report next to each CPE identified (and on CVE entries) there is a suppress. to gather information for reporting a false positive to FireEye Support. Use this list to notify each of them of the false positive Suppressing these false positives is fairly easy using the HTML report.

In the detection tab, notice which vendors have a false positive.Go to the Community tab ( example for 3.03) and vote as safe.You can also perform them for your own installer.

The following steps should be done for NSIS installer and the ZIP file.
#REPORT FILE AS FALSE POSITIVE ZIP FILE#
It's like finding a virus in a zip file and marking all zip files as viruses as a result. This is a bug with the anti-virus and they normally fix it pretty quickly once reported back to them. This causes a false positive on multiple installers generated using the same version of NSIS. Recently there have been a lot of reports of Windows Defender suddenly detecting files as Trojan:Win32/Bluteal. Even though most modern anti-virus vendors know how to extract and scan files from NSIS installers, some of them still generate signatures on the installer stub itself instead of the files in it. /rebates/2fen-us2ffalse-positive-file-form&. Some people sadly use NSIS to distribute their malware. NSIS is open source and you can check for yourself. 4.1 False Positive By Anti-Malware programs.
