This old .exe file is suddenly flagged as malware

Hello!

Here’s my quoted message I left to Malwarebytes forum, I thought to incert it here too, if anyone here could give something into this:

I ran a MBAM scan just a moment ago, and got up with a malware alert from my user/downloads, named "Adware.LoadMoney". The file itself is almost a year old .exe file downloaded from offical source, and my Malwarebytes hasn't recognized it as a threat while I've ran scans almost daily for the past year when I've used MBAM. I've also done some scanning to my computer with Farbar and other more advanced programs with professional guidance some months ago when the file has already been on my computer. I've also not had any sign of adware infection on my PC. But regardless, I let MBAM move the file to quarantine.

I incerted the file itself to Virustotal, here’s what it gave:

https://www.virustotal.com/en-gb/file/aae309572f16568075fb2389d2fe11e448af8cd904e15fa263cae72ea8a6548e/analysis/1459333334/

Nonetheless, could anyone know what kind of infection of that name would be?

https://www.reasoncoresecurity.com/easycleaner.exe-2c4d9dd27559c5a139b43a02b143f4c8e387fb6c.aspx

Thanks for the info Eddy. :slight_smile:

If EasyCleaner executable that my MBAM detected really is same sort of thing that the link describes, should I perform some measures after now that MBAM moved the file to quarantine? :-\

Yes, it is the same EasyCleaner tool.
I suggest you follow the instructions > https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
A thorough check won’t hurt :wink:

Attaching the logs. But I still wonder regardless a little how come Farbar or aswMBR have not alerted this at least in earlier scans I’ve performed. :-\

Also, an administrator from Malwarebytes forum came back to me about my original post, and it’s rather interesting:

20 minutes ago, miekiemoes said: Hi, confirmed this is a false positive indeed. Will be fixed in next database update which will be pushed out in a few minutes after this message

It seems that the people of Malwarebytes have failed to find anything wrong from the file…

how come Farbar or aswMBR have not alerted this at least in earlier scans
Farbar does not detect anything as it is a diagnostic tool and aswMBR is a rootkit tool

Easy cleaner is a blast from the past, if I remember rightly it was the original temp file cleaner… System appears clean

Big thanks essexboy :smiley:

I suppose that I can let MBAM straight remove quarantined EasyCleaner file from my PC.