JRT.exe tool False positieve??

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I wanted to download the Junk Removal Tool from BleepingComputer → http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/junkware-removal-tool/ and then i immediately got the following message from Avast.

http://www.imgdumper.nl/uploads8/558eb1d1c4afa/558eb1d1bf11f-avast_1.PNG

http://www.imgdumper.nl/uploads8/558eb262f1cf7/558eb262f190c-avast_2.PNG

Only Avast detects this file as malware at this time, this may be a false positive?

Thanks in advance, Dasle

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It is a false positive.
https://blog.avast.com/tag/false-positive/

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I have send a sample of this file to Avast Support ticket under the Avast Virus Labs and I have reported it. Avast will be able to fix this false positive. Ticket number #QDX-526-64336. We shall wait and be patience.

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I reported it as well.

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One of the minor Chinese AV also had a FP detection, but metascan gives it as all green: https://www.metascan-online.com/en/scanresult/file/74a4a8ef250a43948956c9a1f38f2c2f

polonus

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Yeap! It’s called Jiangmin

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5811fa2d10c25abb4c25b598301d61c480c32668b539d14aa049c52bdb5c9214/analysis/1435440074/

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Right, Metascan also had the Jiangmin heuristical FP earlier t0-day, but has dropped the detection now.

pol

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Interesting thing about JRT is when I had tried to download it onto my fathers computer with IE, smart screen alerted me to it being a dangerous program.

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The problem with the FP is solved, thanks for the quick response. :wink:

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Thanks for taking the time to confirm that.