ESET Antivirus detected a potential threat in Winzip Utilities

I will run the antivirus in the three ways to explore...

andrew129260 said:

Eset is a very aggressive program. (Not that this is a bad thing!)

It will mark any program that includes pups (potentially unwanted program) like toolbars etc as a threat. You need to decide if you really trust the application you are installing.

Anything like registry cleaners or optimizers should always be avoided.

Layback Bear said:

I could also be flagging something WinZip compressed. Another zipped up program, file or folder.

The Winzip came from a cd of drivers (which has expired). Now, I not know why that message appears when the program already has a year of being installed ?

That virus is severe to the point of having to restore all the system files ?

I think it has been removed. I do not see it in the folder.

When installing, maybe those utilities were marked for installation as well.

Gator said:

If you get anything other than the WinZip file, I would also run Malwarebytes and AdwCleaner

(This link will start the download)
https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/

and AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner Download

If you need help running them just let me know. Post the logs here after they finish.

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In the three modes I did not find anything.

Layback Bear said:

I could also be flagging something WinZip compressed. Another zipped up program, file or folder.

I did not quite understand

andrew129260 said:

Upload it to virus total.

https://www.virustotal.com/

See what it reports. Most likely a False positive. And since it was a cd, it is very unlikely the files got messed with. Assuming they were virus free when they were burned.

How the files get messed ?



Two final questions:
- That message appeared because the program wanted auto run. ¿ Right ? And change something in the windows folder ?
- And I need change passwords or other things ?



I will mark as solved the issue as the "virus" was eliminated. Thank all for following this topic.

I was out there looking for information about what ESET detected it. And seems other users happened the same situation (https://forum.eset.com/topic/3125-cw...alse-positive/)

It seems that the last update I detect the file as virus.


What do you think ?