Norton vs Malwarebytes - who to trust?


  1. mjf
    Posts : 5,969
    Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1
       #1

    Norton vs Malwarebytes - who to trust?


    A recent scan with up todate Malwarebytes gave me Tojan warnings for the unistallers and corresponding registry entries for:
    EasyBCD
    Handbrake
    MakeMKV
    Norton vs Malwarebytes - who to trust?-malwarebytes-threats.png
    I've had EasyBCD for a long time. MakeMKV is the most recent downloaded from the makemkv.com.

    Norton NIS 2011 says they are clean.

    What do you think?????

    Would Revo Uninstaller cleanly get rid of them then do a fresh download?
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  2. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #2

    Get the same thing. Probably just false positives with MBAM's most recent definitions.

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  3. Posts : 3,427
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #3

    Gotta concede with Airbot, at a guess, I would say Easy is being picked up by Heuristics, because of the stuff it does. Definitely not a malware though.
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  4. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #4

    Might report it to them so they can fix it.

    False Positives - Malwarebytes Forum
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  5. mjf
    Posts : 5,969
    Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Thanks
    I think they are all false positives. Well known programs from the developers sites.
    First time MalwareBytes has ever come up with anything for me.

    But if the threat was real. I wonder what the best approach would be. I would manually delete the uninstall.exe and hope Revo Uninstaller would remove the rest.
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  6. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #6

    Hi,

    Agree - sounds like an FP to me. My own approach would be to cross-check it with ESET online, or depending on the file size, upload the files to Jotti.

    Regards,
    Golden
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  7. Posts : 222
    Win 7 Ult + Starter, XP Pro +Home, 2kAS, Linux Mint 8, SuperOS
       #7

    More and more anti-malware vendors' products are labelling so-called "hackware" as "malicious exploits", because they could do "evil" things in the hands of a malefactor.

    Thus "Keyview" is deemed a hacktool, but Belarc Advisor or SIW is not, even though they all decode and show the product keys for various installed licensed products from Microsoft and other vendors.

    It is Microsoft's policy to label products which are potentially counteractive to Microsoft's licensing practices as "malicious", and because it is generally a Microsoft piracy problem, the anti-malware vendors follow Microsoft's lead, feeding on the crumbs left on and under the giant's table, as it were.
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  8. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #8

    mjf said:
    A recent scan with up todate Malwarebytes gave me Tojan warnings for the unistallers and corresponding registry entries for:
    EasyBCD
    Handbrake
    MakeMKV

    I've had EasyBCD for a long time. MakeMKV is the most recent downloaded from the makemkv.com.

    Norton NIS 2011 says they are clean.

    What do you think?????

    Would Revo Uninstaller cleanly get rid of them then do a fresh download?

    These are fixed in the latest definitions.

    False positives.
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  9. Posts : 35
    Windows 7 Ultimate x32
       #9

    false positives. sometimes, MBAM flags some hack tools as "don't steal our software" malware.
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