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The VLC installer vlc-3.0.14-win32.exe has a virus Trojan/Generic.ASMalwS.34D3112.

Please delete the virus.

Visutotal detected the virus. The link page show the result.

• filename: vlc-3.0.14-win32.exe

• sha256: 65ff4c92a821dc52609bf2a276045c1b7ab79ae38217bc8a950e27915c881b43

• result: Antiy-AVL detected "Trojan/Generic.ASMalwS.34D3112"

below is the screenshot of the virustotal scan result of the virus!

your version seems to be the genuine one, the sha256 matches (http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... exe.sha256)
That's a false positive from your anti-virus.

And latest version is v3.0.16 anyway

BTW, how come this screenshot is from https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlmc/uploads/ ?

Seems like this Antiy-AVL is vying for attention by flagging genuine software as malicious:
https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics ... -p/1345186

It's definitely a false positive in any event. You can see that from your screenshot where only one of 62 scanners reports vlc.exe as malicious. If that was indeed the case there would be at least 10 other scanners reporting the same result.

trying to update to 3.0.20 'vetinari' on windows is doing the same thing now

Already explained by Chubinou, if you get 1 warning out of 62 scans then it's likely a false positive.

left it for the night, retried and seems to be working now