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After I bought my new laptop (Windows 10), the shop gave me a year worth of Trend Micro Maximum Security 2016 at a very special discount :). I came home and started to install my usual programs i.e. google chrome, VLC, etc etc.

Since Windows 10 is new to me, I wanted to download 64-bit programs for Windows 10. One of them is VLC. http://vlcplayer-windows10.com/ The heading says Download VLC for Windows 10 (32-bit/64-bit). I selected (64-bit) and automatically Trend Micro detected a threat :o, but in this link http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html trend micro says clean.

VirusTotal says https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/020b650778c6c18643ccea9b6af75ea0ef8e0e61df001d72fa50e48b274734ab/analysis/1472635256/. Out of 56 antivirus only 26 detects it as a threat. Avast detects that it’s clean and since AVG is bought by Avast. AVG detects it as a threat? Is this a false positive?

avast didn’t bought AVG (yet), they are trying to get the deal done.

avast and AVG still have their own scan methods and malware database.

detected as PUP / Adware / Riskware so seems installer comes bundled with some crap … not uncommon

One of them is VLC. http://vlcplayer-windows10.com/ The heading says Download VLC for Windows 10 (32-bit/64-bit). I selected (64-bit) and automatically Trend Micro detected a threa
All download links here are blocked by F-Secure
but in this link http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html trend micro says clean.
This one is not blocked and installer is clean

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/f4a4b8897e86f52a319ee4568e62be9cda1bcb2341e798da12e359d81cb36e51/analysis/1472674201/