Hi, everyone. I'm so very glad to have found this forum. I've had two (possibly only apparent) brushes with malware in just the last two days. I grew up on the wrong side of the digital divide, so I'm a far cry from a techie, and don't know the first thing about these things. I hope I've come to the right place.
Both times, the trojans/malware/false positives came from downloading media players. Yesterday, Virustotal found a trojan and a malware file in VLC, which I uninstalled, ran an apparently hidden copy through AVG's shredder, and then ran scans with both AVG and Malwarebytes. But the latter found only 2 PUAs with "Amazon" in the name. My computer showed no signs of infection, no problems. I've still been careful, avoiding banking, etc. And I figured and hoped any bad stuff had been eliminated, even if I didn't understand how.
But then when I downloaded Potplayer today -- after vigorously researching to make sure it had no reports of such problems, which I found VLC did, though most people claimed they were fixed -- a Virustotal scan found a trojan in there, too. Win32.Trojan.Falsesign.Agbi
Then I got suspicious. Malwarebytes' scan again found nothing wrong. Haven't run AVG yet to avoid the drag on my system. But I read on another site that media players often bring up false positives.
Is this true? Is Potplayer really safe? I haven't uninstalled yet this time...nothing seems wrong. Is there a way to tell for sure? I need a media player, and this one seems fine from all reports...except one.
...Advice, please! What should I do?
Went rather off-topic for the intro, sorry. It's what brought me here, though. I posted about it in the Malware Removal forum. Sorry if it's in the wrong place/s, but I'm at a loss here. Any help would be profoundly appreciated!
Edit: Twice now, Potplayer has asked me to install updates since installing an hour ago, saying " a new version is available." I said yes because I'm exhausted at this point...is this incredibly stupid? Is it a sign of malware?
Well, at least it's playing just fine...and nothing weird is happening on my computer so far...
Both times, the trojans/malware/false positives came from downloading media players. Yesterday, Virustotal found a trojan and a malware file in VLC, which I uninstalled, ran an apparently hidden copy through AVG's shredder, and then ran scans with both AVG and Malwarebytes. But the latter found only 2 PUAs with "Amazon" in the name. My computer showed no signs of infection, no problems. I've still been careful, avoiding banking, etc. And I figured and hoped any bad stuff had been eliminated, even if I didn't understand how.
But then when I downloaded Potplayer today -- after vigorously researching to make sure it had no reports of such problems, which I found VLC did, though most people claimed they were fixed -- a Virustotal scan found a trojan in there, too. Win32.Trojan.Falsesign.Agbi
Then I got suspicious. Malwarebytes' scan again found nothing wrong. Haven't run AVG yet to avoid the drag on my system. But I read on another site that media players often bring up false positives.
Is this true? Is Potplayer really safe? I haven't uninstalled yet this time...nothing seems wrong. Is there a way to tell for sure? I need a media player, and this one seems fine from all reports...except one.
...Advice, please! What should I do?
Went rather off-topic for the intro, sorry. It's what brought me here, though. I posted about it in the Malware Removal forum. Sorry if it's in the wrong place/s, but I'm at a loss here. Any help would be profoundly appreciated!
Edit: Twice now, Potplayer has asked me to install updates since installing an hour ago, saying " a new version is available." I said yes because I'm exhausted at this point...is this incredibly stupid? Is it a sign of malware?
Well, at least it's playing just fine...and nothing weird is happening on my computer so far...
Last edited by a moderator:
