UPDATE: Alright folks, whatever it was it was fortunatley a false positive
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I don't know if Filetrip is part of GBAtemp or not but I was updating emulators on my Wii when I tried to download snes9x GX 4.3.2 and was told by Windows Defender that the file contains a virus, so it promptly deleted it.
https://filetrip.net/wiiu-downloads/homebrew/download-snes9x-gx-4-3-2-f31107.html
I thought it might be a false positive and that Windows Defender was picking up something form inside the archive so foolishly i temporarly disabled realtime protection, downloaded the 7zip archive and tried to run it just to be told that it's corrupted by winrar.
I don't know if there was something in there and if something executed or not, I enabled windows defender's realtime protection again, ran a scan, ran a scan with malwarebytes too and nothing turned up but you never know what damage might have been caused.
I keep my computer clean and well maintained, I may not be a computer person or a tech savvy guy but I know enough to keep spyware and malware off my system so this caught me off guard.
I have uploaded the file to VirusTotal and it seems it's 100% safe
View attachment 60987
none of the 68 antiviruses detect any problem.
since your thread title might scare users I have taken the liberty of renaming it to indicate a false positive.
also Filetrip has an antivirus running on the servers that periodically scans for malware and removes it.
of course there is still the possibility that someone uploads malware that isn't detected by the antivirus, but it isn't the case here.
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I don't know if Filetrip is part of GBAtemp or not but I was updating emulators on my Wii when I tried to download snes9x GX 4.3.2 and was told by Windows Defender that the file contains a virus, so it promptly deleted it.
https://filetrip.net/wiiu-downloads/homebrew/download-snes9x-gx-4-3-2-f31107.html
I thought it might be a false positive and that Windows Defender was picking up something form inside the archive so foolishly i temporarly disabled realtime protection, downloaded the 7zip archive and tried to run it just to be told that it's corrupted by winrar.
I don't know if there was something in there and if something executed or not, I enabled windows defender's realtime protection again, ran a scan, ran a scan with malwarebytes too and nothing turned up but you never know what damage might have been caused.
I keep my computer clean and well maintained, I may not be a computer person or a tech savvy guy but I know enough to keep spyware and malware off my system so this caught me off guard.
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