Signature Win32/Genetik cause too many FPs

I'm a moderator of the forum set up by version2 ,the agent of ESET in China.

I have seen lots of NOD32 users complain about the FPs and most FPs are cause by signature Win32/Genetik.

More specifically, some normal apps are detected as "probably a variant of Win32/Genetik " frequently.

IMO,ESET should balance the FPs and the improving of detection rate brought by signature Win32/Genetik ,then make some changes.

Any aother ideas?

 

It would be helpful if you name what "common apps" are being wrongly detected.

 

One example is Mailwasher Pro 6.0. It's an installation exe file that has been on my computer since september 2007 and now NOD32 starts giving warnings about the file.

 

Hi!

What version of Mailwasher do you write about ?

I just downloaded 6.0.4 and got no warning about it.

Submit information about it to samples@eset.sk

 

Well,there are so many wrongly detected apps and I can not list all of them.

Recently,a file of P2P downloading software called "Funshion" is detected as "probably a variant of Win32/Genetik " and then deleted so that users can not use it anymore.

This is the offical website of funshion:
http://www.funshion.com/english/index.html

And the report of Virustotal:
http://www.virustotal.com/zh-cn/analisis/2304db36a0187e574a4c5d378108d3b7

The most important is that ESET is inefficient in solving FPs.
When I report a PF,it will take 2-3 days for ESET to fix it.