goddi Posted May 15, 2018 Report Share Posted May 15, 2018 Greetings, My Windows Defender indicated that I had a 'Trojan:Win32/Fuery.A!cl'. The affected item was an exe of a PTE show that I have not run for a long time. I let it be removed and the exe was deleted. I am wondering if this appears to be a false positive. Or why an old exe that has not been used for years can get a Trojan attached to it. Some searching indicate its could be a false positive but just wondering... Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 15, 2018 Report Share Posted May 15, 2018 Gary, The most likely it's a false positive. Add this file to the white list in Windows Defender and send me it in a ZIP archive. I will check version of PTE. And then I will send a report to Microsoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goddi Posted May 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2018 10 minutes ago, Igor Kokarev said: Gary, The most likely it's a false positive. Add this file to the white list in Windows Defender and send me it in a ZIP archive. I will check version of PTE. And then I will send a report to Microsoft. Igor, Not sure what you mean. I don't have the Trojan anymore. It was deleted. I don't have the exe anymore, unless you want me to create it again and send it. Not sure what you want me to send you in a Zip,...the entire show in PTE or the show as an exe...? Not sure yet how to add the Trojan to the white list but I will wait to see what you find out. Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 15, 2018 Report Share Posted May 15, 2018 Gary, Do you remember exact version of PTE which was used for that EXE file? Also can you try to create again a new EXE and check if the problem with Windows Defender will occur again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goddi Posted May 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2018 21 minutes ago, Igor Kokarev said: Gary, Do you remember exact version of PTE which was used for that EXE file? Also can you try to create again a new EXE and check if the problem with Windows Defender will occur again? Igor, I checked the PTE file and it shows the 'CreationTool=PicturesToExe Deluxe 7.00 Beta 12.' I re-created the exe and ran the following programs on it: Malwarebytes, Super Anitspyware, AVG AntivirusFree, Zemana AntiMalware and Windows Defender. None of them indicated any virus/bug. Must have been a false positive. But I don't understand why, all of a sudden, this old exe show would pop-up as having Trojan. A long time ago, there was a virus that attached many of my PTE exe shows and I was thinking this was one of them too. Maybe not, but it concerned me. Thanks for looking into it. Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 15, 2018 Report Share Posted May 15, 2018 Gary, I think it's was a false positive. I created a new EXE show in PTE 7.0 (final version) and Windows Defender shows nothing for this file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goddi Posted May 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2018 5 minutes ago, Igor Kokarev said: Gary, I think it's was a false positive. I created a new EXE show in PTE 7.0 (final version) and Windows Defender shows nothing for this file. Thanks, Igor. Just a strange thing... Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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