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armandoalonso / c3IDE

An Integrated Development Environment For Construct 3 Plugins
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idp.generic threat #50

Closed Opme19 closed 5 years ago

Opme19 commented 5 years ago

Hi there,

An idp.generic threat was detected rather randomly on my CPU last night found by AVG. It was moved to vault and restarted to say it had been removed, but then tonight I received the error again. Now I'm starting to get a bit worried that there is something more serious at hand.

Any help would be appreciated.

armandoalonso commented 5 years ago

which file was the file that triggered? I can assure you there is no idp.generic virus in c3ide. the software is open source, also this issue has come up before and i reported it to AVG as a false positive, please see this thread https://github.com/armandoalonso/c3IDE/issues/34

margretfree commented 5 years ago

Go here to run an online scanner from ESET.

Note: You will need to use Internet Explorer for this scan

Please post this logfile in your next reply

Opme19 commented 5 years ago

Go here to run an online scanner from ESET.

Note: You will need to use Internet Explorer for this scan

  • Turn off the real-time scanner of any existing antivirus program while performing the online scan
  • Tick the box next to YES, I accept the Terms of Use.
  • Click Start
  • When asked, allow the ActiveX control to install
  • Click Start
  • Make sure that the option Remove found threats is unticked, and the option Scan unwanted applications is checked
  • Click Start
  • Wait for the scan to finish
  • When the scan completes, push
  • Push , and save the file to your desktop using a unique name.
  • Push the Back button.
  • Push Finish

Please post this logfile in your next reply

No threats found, I guess thats a good thing?

margretfree commented 5 years ago

I assume it a false positive. In this case, when the threat seems to be a false positive, then the first thing you need to do is take the file out of the virus vault to stop it from being blocked by your anti-virus program. You can achieve this by the following steps:

  1. Firstly, open your Avast anti-virus program. (These steps will also work in the case, you have any antivirus application other than Avast)
  2. Then, go to protection.
  3. After that, check the virus chest.
  4. Then, right-click your file.
  5. At last, select restore and add an excursion.
armandoalonso commented 5 years ago

since this looks like a false positive i will go ahead and close this issue.

Opme19 commented 5 years ago

I assume it a false positive. In this case, when the threat seems to be a false positive, then the first thing you need to do is take the file out of the virus vault to stop it from being blocked by your anti-virus program. You can achieve this by the following steps:

  1. Firstly, open your Avast anti-virus program. (These steps will also work in the case, you have any antivirus application other than Avast)
  2. Then, go to protection.
  3. After that, check the virus chest.
  4. Then, right-click your file.
  5. At last, select restore and add an excursion.

Thank for the help @margretfree