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norton detecting virus from FA forever software

Postby wight29 » 28 Apr 2017, 20:04

Hi all,

trying to play a few games but my antivirus keeps reporting this.

faf-uid.eve contained threat Heur.AdvML.B.

is this a false positive? if so i will remove it out of quarantine.

cheers
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Re: norton detecting virus from FA forever software

Postby Uveso » 28 Apr 2017, 21:35

I just checked the faf-uid.exe with ESET antivirus.

Filesize: 2.143.253 Bytes

No Virus.
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Re: norton detecting virus from FA forever software

Postby wight29 » 28 Apr 2017, 21:52

thanks! this tells me its a false positive! cheers!
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Re: norton detecting virus from FA forever software

Postby DukeOfEarl » 28 Apr 2017, 23:16

Please report this to Norton. https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/
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Re: norton detecting virus from FA forever software

Postby wight29 » 29 Apr 2017, 14:18

I have submitted the false positive report to Norton. :)
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Re: norton detecting virus from FA forever software

Postby Uveso » 29 Apr 2017, 15:39

wight29 wrote:I have submitted the false positive report to Norton. :)


Thank you !
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