| mozartghost
 
 
 
			| Joined: 10 Mar 2010 |  | Posts: 0 |  | Location: Shanghai China |    |  | 
	
		|  Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:10 pm |  |  |  |  
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	| GuitarBob
 
 
 
			| Joined: 09 Jul 2006 |  | Posts: 9 |  | Location: USA |    |  | 
	
		|  Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:42 pm |  |  |  |  
		|  |  |  If only 2 AVs find an infection, I would suspect that it is a false positive detection.  The only exception would be if the virus infecting the file is very new and the AV fraternity has not had a chance to see it yet.  You also have to look at the AVs that are doing the detecting.  If a couple of the large AVs spot an infection, like McAfee, Symantec, Microsoft, and Trend Micro, it is probably an infection.  Additionally, these AVs have pretty good heuristics/generic detection (but sometimes give false positives): AntiVir (Avira), NOD32, and Sophos.  So if only one of the large AVs spot something, but a couple of these also spot it, there is probably an infection. 
 Submit the file to Threat Expert at https://www.threatexpert.com/submit.aspx on the web.  They will actually execute the file and send a report to your email address.  Their reports usually include a threat ranking.  If it has any rank at all, it is probably malicous.  Anubis at https://anubis.iseclab.org/ on the web performs a similar service, but it is sponsored by the academic world, while Threat Expert is in the AV community (PC Tools).
 
 Send any false positives to Clam AV at https://www.clamav.net/sendvirus/ on the web.
 
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