Norton Virus Alert On Download?

dsi1 · Feb 18, 2016

Tried to download adwcleaner.exe from your link on the junkware page and received an immediate virus alert from Norton/Symantec that it was infected with: Suspicious.Cloud.7.EP tried an additional site on ToolsLib same thing. That's two sites and received the same alert both times. Anyone know if this is a false positive, or know a clean download alternative?

plodr · Feb 18, 2016

Is this where you started?
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/adwcleaner.html

I downloaded it with no complaints. I scanned it with Malwarebytes which reported it clean then I uploaded to Virus Total.
2 reported problems 54 reported no problems.
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...39f9b6e26e1faebd86f9030fd6fb4b8da46/analysis/

I'd say it is a false positive.

DavidGP · Feb 19, 2016

Hi

Very likely a false positive due to the nature of the software being a malware cleaner, those softwares at times can trigger a false positive in some AVs.

Eldon · Feb 19, 2016

And here's a third confirmation - it's a false positive.
I scanned it with Avast, and it's clean.

VirusTotal - here's the results.
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...dae2bf44b8d3dd242eebef75/analysis/1455887062/

Bkav's detection? Ignore. Never heard of Bkav.

NortonSupport · Mar 4, 2016

dsi1 said: ↑

Tried to download adwcleaner.exe from your link on the junkware page and received an immediate virus alert from Norton/Symantec that it was infected with: Suspicious.Cloud.7.EP tried an additional site on ToolsLib same thing. That's two sites and received the same alert both times. Anyone know if this is a false positive, or know a clean download alternative?
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Hi!

If you think this could be a false positive detection. Please submit it to www.norton.com/fp . This would help.

Harini
Norton Support

DavidGP · Mar 17, 2016

NortonSupport said: ↑

Hi!

If you think this could be a false positive detection. Please submit it to www.norton.com/fp . This would help.

Harini
Norton Support
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Hi Harini

I would hope the original poster has sent it in as a FP, I was going to incase they have not but I sadly cannot fill out the online forums as I dont not all the details or the original posters version of Norton AV etc.

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