Windows 7: Explorer.exe showing as malware

Hi All



Ive just run a scan with Hitman Pro and its flagged explorer.exe as Malware.MSE and Malwarebytes scans come back clear.Is this just an FP or do i have a problem.
Any help appreciated.

Danny

I would call that a "false positive".

That was my first thought too

Thankyou

Especially since it shows in C:>Windows, which is the correct location.

Thanks whs always appreciate a second opinion

Danny

I'm curious, did you do any modding of Window's to adjust the theme?

I do have custom icons and a custom orb but havent applied any custom themes.

I just thought that if you had, maybe the AV had picked up on the altered explorer.exe signature because of the theme changes. I mean, there are people on here who hack many system's .exe and .dll files to make themselves custom Window's theme, so I had to ask if you were one of then. But I guess not, so it's just a normal FP

Actually Lost Colonist your on to something i restored the explorer.exe back-up file that windows 7 start button changer creates and ran it again and no problems, used it again to apply a custom orb and the problems back.
Any Views on this

Danny

Every file has a default signature and MD5 hash etc, maybe whatever is in this hitmanpro checks these signatures / hashes. In this case it would have noticed an altered signature/hash and flagged it as infected.