Why so many viruses recently?

[Nin382ja]

So many games (exe files) contain viruses. I scan with virustotal and hybdrid analysis as reccomended and it's just nightmare. I used to ignore these but then rogue killer detected some viruses so since wiping my system clean I'm super cautious.

(I download by gofile and Mega only so it's always a safe download)

Anyone else experienced virus detections like me?

 

[anne O'nymous]

Anyone else experienced virus detections like me?

Personally no and, since you're the only one to have opened a thread about this recently, I guess that I'm far to be the only one. There were an outbreak of false positive (from marginal anti-viruses) few months ago, but that's all.

 

[CaptainBipto]

So many games (exe files) contain viruses. I scan with virustotal and hybdrid analysis as recommended and it's just nightmare. I used to ignore these but then rogue killer detected some viruses so since wiping my system clean I'm super cautious.

(I download by gofile and Mega only so it's always a safe download)

Anyone else experienced virus detections like me?

Apparently, I fall into the category of not encountering viruses like you.
I have downloaded things from Gofile, Mega, Pixeldrain, Mediafire, and a few others I can't remember and haven't encountered any viruses.

I haven't seen anyone with something like Kaspersky, BitDefender, AVG, or Norton popping up in a thread and saying 'Hey, Kaspersky/BitDefender/Norton found a virus in this exe'.
However, I do see people saying that they used VirusTotal and it found 'viruses', those messages are usually followed up by people using things like BitDefender or Kaspersky saying they scanned it and didn't find a single thing wrong with it.

I have never used VirusTotal, but it doesn't sound like a great service if it is generating so many false virus detections.

 

[woody554]

nope. the last time I even heard about a virus here was like 3 years ago. I think it's highly unlikely you've ran into viruses, simply based on them being so rare here AND you having so many detections of them. the odds of a rare thing happening to one person many many times are incredibly low, so probably there's some other explanation.

 

[sacrumprofanum]

If you have 3 different antivirus softwares on your pc then almost anything will be considered a virus

 

[hu lover]

So many games (exe files) contain viruses. I scan with virustotal and hybdrid analysis as reccomended and it's just nightmare. I used to ignore these but then rogue killer detected some viruses so since wiping my system clean I'm super cautious.

(I download by gofile and Mega only so it's always a safe download)

Anyone else experienced virus detections like me?

Firstly, Virustotal is not as efficient, read up on this article

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Secondly, i think you meant Hybrid Analysis.

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Furthermore, my recommendation to you is get a stronger and more reliable anti virus protection program. i recommend that you use Bitdefender or Norton.

Lastly, you might be getting virus detection for .exe files perhaps because Virustotal and Hybrid Analysis are not reliable enough.

 

[twinklecake]

Free AVS are invariably shit. Do the 15 minutes of diligence to google up some worthy products and then actually pay some money to properly protect your data, especially if you're involved in degenerate sites like F95. Virustotal even publicly sells URLs and presumably a bunch of auxiliary data involved with any detections to other AVS providers and is known to give its users a whole lotta false positives.

To actually answer the question though, Firefox will occasionally want to delete a file I just downloaded if I try to open it directly from the browser, which is almost the same issue due to it being plugged up to the gills.

 

[hu lover]

Free AVS are invariably shit. Do the 15 minutes of diligence to google up some worthy products and then actually pay some money to properly protect your data, especially if you're involved in degenerate sites like F95. Virustotal even publicly sells URLs and presumably a bunch of auxiliary data involved with any detections to other AVS providers and is known to give its users a whole lotta false positives.

To actually answer the question though, Firefox will occasionally want to delete a file I just downloaded if I try to open it directly from the browser, which is almost the same issue due to it being plugged up to the gills.

Good and detailed explanation.

 

[anne O'nymous]

Virustotal [...] and is known to give its users a whole lotta false positives.

Well, virustotal just report what the different anti-virus are saying, but yeah, it's surely virustotal fault, not those cheap anti-virus that are shitty.

 

[twinklecake]

Well, virustotal just report what the different anti-virus are saying, but yeah, it's surely virustotal fault, not those cheap anti-virus that are shitty.

Yeah, generally you're at fault if you act on shit intel you gain from shit sources. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

 

[hu lover]

Well, virustotal just report what the different anti-virus are saying, but yeah, it's surely virustotal fault, not those cheap anti-virus that are shitty.

Virustotal is inefficient and terrible to use and has flaws, this article states that clearly.

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[anne O'nymous]

Yeah, generally you're at fault if you act on shit intel you gain from shit sources. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Good. So, as you just said yourself, the faulty here are the users who can't read a report giving a list of detection software, coupled to the result they returned, and not the site that is doing absolutely nothing more than providing the said list.

Thanks for your participation, don't hesitate to play again.

 

[twinklecake]

Good. So, as you just said yourself, the faulty here are the users who can't read a report giving a list of detection software, coupled to the result they returned, and not the site that is doing absolutely nothing more than providing the said list.

Thanks for your participation, don't hesitate to play again.

Man, you seem kind of unhappy.

 

[anne O'nymous]

Man, you seem kind of unhappy.

You should change your mood detector, it's clearly broken.

 

[Count Morado]

Virustotal is inefficient and terrible to use and has flaws, this article states that clearly.

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Quora is a forum where people ask questions and get answers. It's not a publication, it's not peer reviewed, and it can have wrong answers just as easily as any question asked here can receive wrong answers. Like Reddit, answers are upvoted/downvoted - but still users should take any answers with a grain of salt. It's a beginning to a journey of understanding, not a destination.

Also, the link you provide is not saying what you are saying it is saying.


That said - VirusTotal is not the problem. The problem are people who think when three definitions say there is a virus (notably including Jiangmin, usually) when the other 60+ say it is clean that people think "OMG - this has a virus!" instead of using common sense.

As to the OP's question - Kaspersky has been popping false positives as of late and browsers were alerting users of possible malware/phishing because of how the filehost's mirrors were named.

 

[hu lover]

Quora is a forum where people ask questions and get answers. It's not a publication, it's not peer reviewed, and it can have wrong answers just as easily as any question asked here can receive wrong answers. Like Reddit, answers are upvoted/downvoted - but still users should take any answers with a grain of salt. It's a beginning to a journey of understanding, not a destination.

Also, the link you provide is not saying what you are saying it is saying.
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That said - VirusTotal is not the problem. The problem are people who think when three definitions say there is a virus (notably including Jiangmin, usually) when the other 60+ say it is clean that people think "OMG - this has a virus!" instead of using common sense.

As to the OP's question - Kaspersky has been popping false positives as of late and browsers were alerting users of possible malware/phishing because of how the filehost's mirrors were named.

Thank you Count Morado for your clarity on the site Quora, i myself was not aware that it was a site that could have misleading or wrong answers.

i find it interesting how you say that filehost's mirrors were named differently and could be potentially malicious and risky because of this.

 

[anne O'nymous]

[...] (notably including Jiangmin, usually) [...]

Personally, knowing how much China is active into the cyberwar, and how much the Chinese government can be intrusive when it come to Chinese industries, I wouldn't trust a Chinese anti-virus, whatever it can say about a file safety.

 

[Count Morado]

Personally, knowing how much China is active into the cyberwar, and how much the Chinese government can be intrusive when it come to Chinese industries, I wouldn't trust a Chinese anti-virus, whatever it can say about a file safety.

You sinophobic snail snuffer, you.

 

[hu lover]

Count Morado, anne O'nymous you 2 good friends? Sounds like you are getting along with each other very well.

 

[1tomadeira]

Just use windows update, your microsoft secure probably doesn't have DB updated. Some false positives happen around here as well before updating.