Windows 10: Wacatac trojan horse infection or false positive?

Discus and support Wacatac trojan horse infection or false positive? in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; Hi,I booted up my computer and immediately recieved a notification that Wacatac was detected by Microsoft security.I ran a scan to remove it, so now... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by siena_microsoft, Mar 20, 2023.

  1. Wacatac trojan horse infection or false positive?


    Hi,I booted up my computer and immediately recieved a notification that Wacatac was detected by Microsoft security.I ran a scan to remove it, so now its saying no virus is detected but "remediation is incomplete" in history.I ran a scan with Malwarebytes and KVRT and both are saying my computer is clean, but I am still seeing this in history screenshot attachedI try to go to the file location listed and my computer says it does not exist.Please help, thank you

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    siena_microsoft, Mar 20, 2023
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  2. cruft Win User

    Trojan horse false positive on v0.26 installer?

    AVG free claims that ATITool_0.26.exe is infected with "Trojan horse Downloader.Zlob.MCQ".

    I scanned my computer for viruses and it came out clean. I quarantined the installer, deleted it, and proceeded to download a fresh copy from this site - the installer showed up as infected again.

    Is this a false positive?

    I also downloaded the 0.27 beta installer and it came out clean.
     
    cruft, Mar 20, 2023
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  3. Trojan horse false positive on v0.26 installer?

    Odd, but I would say its most likely a false positive. Hardware tools do this because of the nature of what the program does.
     
    Dippyskoodlez, Mar 20, 2023
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  4. hereford Win User

    Wacatac trojan horse infection or false positive?

    Trojan horse false positive on v0.26 installer?

    Phew!

    Seems it was a problem with the virus definitions. AVG appear to be getting quite a few false positives on various products looking at the threads on the free avg forum.

    As of the update this evening taking the virus database to 269.10.14/912, downloading atitool_0.26.exe no longer gets a trojan alert from avg, or at least the one from the mirror I selected at random didn't

    Quite an impressive fix time from the guys at grisoft.
     
    hereford, Mar 20, 2023
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