Why does Malwarebytes view a Windows 3.1 program as malware?

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evilgrins

evilgrins

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I still use a lot of prgorams that I've been using since as far back as I've been using computers, though in some cases I've had to go hunting for downloads to find some I've lost. Like this thing:
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Handy little mouse tool. Right-click selects weapons, left-click shoots. You can destroy your desktop or whatever windows you had open before activating it...

...which is handy for destroying certain annoying people on Twitter:
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It makes me feel better. Sue me.

Here's what I don't understand: Malwarebytes views the program as malware, although AVG doesn't. It isn't malware but it keeps getting recognized as such by 1 of the 2 system checkers I've got.

Why is that?
 
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nawrot

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Upload it to virustotal and see who detects it. I think it is false positive. If its not detected by most, zip it with pssword "infected", email to malware bytes and explain situation. They will fix their detection.
 
leilei

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Scanners have been detecting the 'joke' program category for years, only in the name of 'trusted computing'.


Most of the "VIRUSES FOUNDED!!1!!11!" results I get are often the DOS-era things like an innocent program playing pc speaker noises with claims of 'washing your computer'. Unfortunately this misinformation also reclassifies them as 'viruses' and knowitall new PC experts claims these are viruses from that. With today's paranoia, After Dark's Bad Dog module would be a "virus" only for it pretending to wreck your computer. Maybe even that old dinosavr.scr that tears your screen too


(and the other results I get are just the typical packed EXE files, since commercial compilers and linkers are bloated as hell these days.)
 
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NRG

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It probably thinks it's malicious because it's a program that's made to fuck up your screen and is so ancient that it's unsurprisingly not in their database. I'm willing to bet AVG doesn't flag it because almost everything gets by it.
 
Hadmar

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I don't understand the surprise.
Anti virus programs have detected original Windows files as malware and in turn fucked up the system.
Why wouldn't they detect a random program as malware?
 
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nawrot

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TBH, with more than 500k of new viruses per day nobody cares about some single ancient joke program. Times when every sample had proper name, variant and description are long gone. If that thing has encryption that was used by some real virus it will be detected just because its encrypted.
 
SkaarjMaster

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Yes, probably a false positive, but why.....I have no idea. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware fixed my Mom's computer recently when Avira's AntiVir could not.
 
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