Windows 10: Windows Security popping up constant false positives.

I was attempting to set up a virtual machine of Kali Linux a few weeks ago for a course I'm taking, and accidentally ended up opening up the disk image within file explorer. This caused the drive to appear under the "My PC" tab. Even after selecting the ejection prompt and removing it, Windows Security continues to pop up false positive warnings about tools within Metasploit. Is there a way to fully cut off the constant false positive pings or will I have to continue allowing them on device? File location for every ping leads back to the now removed disk image.

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database of malware producing false positives or false negatives

Find the file that is detected by WD, then follow the steps at the following site to submit the sample:

Submit A Virus Sample To Microsoft

<<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/portal/submission/submit.aspx>>

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False positive for desktop shortcut scanner.lnk

The 1.239.488.0 virus / spyware definition update that rolled out about 24 hours ago appears to be producing a false positive for any shortcut placed on the desktop called "Scanner.lnk". I can consistently replicate a false positive for Trojan:Win32/FakeSysdef
with the following steps.

• Create a shortcut to an exe file.
• Place the shortcut on the desktop.
• Name the shortcut "Scanner".
• Run "Quick Scan".

I don't get the same result by directly scanning the file, nor by uploading the file to www.virustotal.com, so it would appear this is as a result of a heuristic rather than a file content analysis. I also don't get the same result with a shortcut that links
to a website.

Can anyone else replicate? How can we go about getting the Windows Defender team to reconsider this heuristic? It's a bit heavy-handed.

 

False Positive?

Well Ive been looking for reviews of a specific motherboard, a website by the name ocdrift.com/review-asrock-990fx-extreme-9/ popped avast into action, Im just warning other users of this site, unsure if its a legit viral attack or if its a false positive