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VirusTotal appears to also be trash - it's been causing a bunch of people on this site the past month to think everything has a virus because of at least 2 of the virus definitions it uses. In particular, the virus definitions from Jiangmin are the biggest culprit of false positives.oh, those are both trash
have you tried running the so called virus through virustotal? what does it say?
Let me rephrase that, it appears many users don't have the common sense to know that if 70 virus definitions on VirusTotal do not detect a virus, that the single one (or two) that does is a false positive.
This has been happening, as well. However, it isn't a global issue - it seems to be regional or spotty. Makes me wonder if Windows Defender uses slightly different virus definitions depending upon what part of the world the user is in (or their VPN says they are in) or what version of windows the user has.A lot of recent virus reports are because Windows Defender is tagging many Mega app temporary download files as the 'Wacatac.H!ml' Trojan, because that trojan behaves in a similar fashion. It doesn't appear to be related to what files or what games are involved, since it's been the same report across a wide range of titles.