viruses or false positives?

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by prybczynski, Jan 22, 2008.

  1. prybczynski

    prybczynski Private E-2

    I just ran an online scan of a file on my machine at www.virustotal.com and it returned the following results. Would you say the file is infected or are these false positives?

    Antivirus - Result
    AhnLab-V3 - nothing
    AntiVir - TR/Proxy.Horst.aae.14
    Authentium - nothing
    Avast - nothing
    AVG - nothing
    BitDefender - nothing
    CAT-QuickHeal - TrojanProxy.Horst.aae
    ClamAV - nothing
    DrWeb - nothing
    eSafe - suspicious Trojan/Worm
    eTrust-Vet - nothing
    Ewido - nothing
    FileAdvisor - High threat detected
    Fortinet - nothing
    F-Prot - nothing
    F-Secure - nothing
    Ikarus - Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Horst.aae
    Kaspersky - nothing
    McAfee - nothing
    Microsoft - nothing
    NOD32v2 - nothing
    Norman - nothing
    Panda - Suspicious file
    Prevx1 - nothing
    Rising - Hack.Win32.Keygen.a
    Sophos - Mal/Generic-A
    Sunbelt - Trojan-Proxy.Horst.aae.14
    Symantec - nothing
    TheHacker - nothing
    VBA32 - Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Horst.aae
    VirusBuster - nothing
    Webwasher-Gateway - Trojan.Proxy.Horst.aae.14
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    We cannot answer a question like this based on having no information. You did not even give us the file name or where it was located.

    If you want to check your PC for malware, please follow the instructions in the below link and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.

    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide
     

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