Windows 10: I want to run an app that is seen as a False Positive for being a malicious file and i...

I want to run an app that is seen as False Positive for being a malicious file and when i click see more info i dont get an option to run it anyway

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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.

 

Is this a false positive?

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

That is a false positive if only one AV on VirusTotal flagged that file, and your 4 safety scanner scans did not find any malware on your PC, then you have nothing to worry about and no further steps to perform.

 

False Positive for AV

untrue. I've seen obvious false positives by kav and not just once.