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<blockquote data-quote="Ludditus" data-source="post: 814763" data-attributes="member: 39708"><p>[USER=3]@Spawn[/USER] What exactly is a <strong><u>KNOWN</u></strong> threat?</p><p>There are Nirsoft utilities classified as malware (not PUP) by some security products.</p><p>There are "not-a-virus:*" (as Kaspersky names them) that are deemed "known threats" by most security products.</p><p>There are keygens/patches which are by no means malware, but only ethically questionable.</p><p>There are FPs which are false identifications as some known threats.</p><p></p><p>Of course, I suppose detections such as Trj/CI.A (Panda), Trojan.GenericKD.* (Bitdefender), Win32:Malware-gen, Win32:MalwareX-gen [Trj] and FileRepMalware (Avast/AVG) don't qualify as "known threats" ... despite such detections being shared by both harmless keygens and dreadful ransomware.</p><p></p><p>Either way, knowledgeable people prefer to be asked first.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ludditus, post: 814763, member: 39708"] [USER=3]@Spawn[/USER] What exactly is a [B][U]KNOWN[/U][/B] threat? There are Nirsoft utilities classified as malware (not PUP) by some security products. There are "not-a-virus:*" (as Kaspersky names them) that are deemed "known threats" by most security products. There are keygens/patches which are by no means malware, but only ethically questionable. There are FPs which are false identifications as some known threats. Of course, I suppose detections such as Trj/CI.A (Panda), Trojan.GenericKD.* (Bitdefender), Win32:Malware-gen, Win32:MalwareX-gen [Trj] and FileRepMalware (Avast/AVG) don't qualify as "known threats" ... despite such detections being shared by both harmless keygens and dreadful ransomware. Either way, knowledgeable people prefer to be asked first. [/QUOTE]
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