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The hash belongs to vlc-3.0.21-win64.exe
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/974 ... 715ec60c59

Which file are you taking about ? The installer ? The ZIP file ? The executable ?
Post the URL of this Virustotal report.

That said, VLC 3.0.21 is out for several months now and no one has reported any issue of this kind yet.
1 warning out of 65/70 must be a false positive.

VirusTotal - Zillya security vendor detected Trojan.Rozena.Win32.223574.

Please confirm if this is of concern or a false positive? Thanks.

... to get it corrected. This is a recurring problem with their software, we can't fix it for them. https://forum.videolan.org/search.php?keywords=VirusTotal

vlc-3.0.17.4-win32.exe is popping one flag on VirusTotal for Trojan.Generic.Win32.1656480. I know it is probably a false positive but VLC needs to get it corrected.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/514 ... 2028c6749f

... result: Antiy-AVL detected "Trojan/Generic.ASMalwS.34D3112" below is the screenshot of the virustotal scan result of the virus! https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlmc/uploads/edb721ad4e98d0f0e104774c0559862e/www.virustotal.com_gui_file_65ff4c92a821dc52609bf2a276045c1b7ab79ae38217bc8a950e27915c881b43_nocache_1.png

Try the online Viruscheck for your "VLC.exe". - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload Drag and drop the " VLC.exe " from your Computer in the online-Zone in Virustotal ("Finger print-Symbol"). Virustotal check the .exe-File ...

... When I downloaded the file (https://get.videolan.org/vlc/3.0.10/win64/vlc-3.0.10-win64.exe), I checked the exe. file with virustotal. One engine said, that there is a trojan (Jiangmin: Trojan.Generic. esazv) Is it a real virus or just a false positive?! Here is the URL ...

Hello tyee, you can always check Files online if the are dangerous. -> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload For Example put the "vlc.exe" File from your Computer as drag and drop from your "Windows File Explorer" in the Virustotal Web Site. ...

I don't want to sound paranoid but when I scanned vlc-3.0.4-win64.exe with VirusTotal, I found also the results of hybrid analysis, which are the following: submitname:"c73aa2a4cad7703e3f4fe756bf307351bd39f864c1b654f43bccc9415affbee9.exe.bin" falcon-threatscore:100/100 ...

Thank you InTheWings for the link to the forum search. A lot of information to digest. It did point me to Hybrid: https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/59940804b6a89f0c83b576247dd90f2c5a22b8c7f040ebf82813c59968828035 Which, in spite of 14 "Suspicious" indicators, did label the file as &qu...

Yandex (via VirusTotal.com) found the Trojan.Inject!ZKnhxDAIRCs trojan in the executable. I did verify the SHA256 hash (using PowerShell "Get-FileHash"). VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/59940804b6a89f0c83b576247dd90f2c5a22b8c7f040ebf82813c59968828035/detection ...

... but when I check it I get 6c0c26eb7aa648a0ee3842e07fcfef4b10652667d64aefbae15f43b7a5a58dcb. Virustotal.com returns the same checksum that doesn’t match. See below: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/6c0c26eb7aa648a0ee3842e07fcfef4b10652667d64aefbae15f43b7a5a58dcb/details

... virus as most people would not deinstall, so run it), that's a false positive. You can check many antivirus engines against that file https://www.virustotal.com/#/home/upload and confirm

... - since you are entering the realm of custom coding remember to check all downloads with https://www.virustotal.com/ for malware. A single hit with +30 community upvotes is probably a false positive and safe. Alternate solutions are: -use a Bluray burner ...

... upload it on metadefender and virus total. .dmg file is fine clean but inside is file named Autoupdate. I extract it and upload direct file to virustotal and VT says it is malware. I upload it to Metadefender and Jotti scanner and result is same. Here are result. What it is? https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/123de51952ae2ee69cf94514355f3e04b613dc66b64da628eefc5a371fada0d5/analysis ...

Using the SHA256 hash to read the report over at VirusTotal shows 1 out of 61 antivirus vendors detect an issue. So, with that kind of ratio, there is a fair chance of a false positive. Either there is 1 false positive, or 60 false negatives. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/37e857b0322a6676c4d01310b2927c109720a6d89cc149d1a35852b649b53387/analysis/

VirusTotal found virus "Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9746" on vlc-2.2.5.1-win32.exe, se- e details:
SHA256: 37e857b0322a6676c4d01310b2927c109720a6d89cc149d1a35852b649b53387
File: vlc-2.2.5.1-win32.exe
Report: 1 / 58
Date: 2017-05-19 22:05:32 UTC

Can you make a check?
Thank you

https://www.virustotal.com/es/file/b8ea ... 487602147/

1/57
What is making you thinking this single one is right and the 56 others ones are wrong ?

... as malware or virus by a few scanners. Do you think they are false positives: https://virusscan.jotti.org/es-ES/filescanjob/6n8qku0wy5 https://www.virustotal.com/es/file/b8eaf5092d31b9eacf98c96cc2cee63258c71c348334e0433cf540b19bbc50eb/analysis/1487602147/ http://r.virscan.org/report/3d72a4d64d71d1f698f4961f62166a58 ...

... had to click on the download button 4 times to start the download. The first three clicks brought up ads. Feel free to run your own test at http://virustotal.com I did... https://virustotal.com/en/file/d59988137da9d9eb46bd7ec4e9c10f042153374226935ddb1493945ab7115cbd/analysis/1482789913/ I'm really ...

... Pro, and my SuperAntiSpyware Pro [full versions each, simultaneously active, on Win8.1] all said that the file's clean, so I submitted it to VirusTotal, which found only one out of 57 of the available scanners counted it as a positive. That was from "Rising," an anti-virus I've ...

... in build process of vlc, i found avira antivirus alarm on fourcc_gen.exe so scanned it with online virus check, is that file safe? https://www.virustotal.com/ko/file/322b9244e2bf53c4e2ebe4b07d86f626a5f65765ba5651edc5a44bde4a5474df/analysis/1466383639/ Thank you.

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