winrar 3.92 64bit false positives?

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  1. wutsup

    wutsup Registered Member

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    hey wilders, i uploaded the winrar 3.92 x64 exe to virustotal and esafe says it has a win32.trojanhorse and mcafee+artemis says it has artemis.

    i downloaded the file from winrars official site(www.rarlab.com)

    are these false positives?

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    ok thx for the info willl send the winrar 3.92 64bit exe to them,
    but just in general do you think its a false positive or not?
     
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    It may be but submitting it will allow them to correct the definition.
     
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    i cant submit the file anymore since winrar now updated to 3.93, but i certainly hope the 3.92 was a false positive cause i installed it on my computer....but then i unisntalled it
     
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    what does everyone else think? fp or not?
     
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    Well, if it looks lika a duck and quacks like a duck .. :)

    Unfortunately the scanners you listed are known to have false positives (though Artemis shouldn't be that sensitive ...).

    Since there were no detections by any of the major players, and you got the file from dev's site, the likelihood for false positive is massive :)
     
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