Avast reports threat through h&g-steamlauncher

[Skiller]

My anti-virus program (Avast) did never make a fail-interpretation of software and until now I think it scanned all softwares and applications 100% correctly, so this is very confusing, what does 'IDP.Generic' mean?
https://ibb.co/FVFWRrH
"recognized by behavioral protection"

[şamelinho]

It is a virus. Any of your files could be infected by that virus. It is not a specific file that was infected, though. Just quarantine virus. I advise you to use Malwarebytes and scan your computer. It is really effective.

[Skiller]

Originally posted by G O L L U M (smeagol):

It is a virus. Any of your files could be infected by that virus. It is not a specific file that was infected, though. Just quarantine virus. I advise you to use Malwarebytes and scan your computer. It is really effective.

ok tyvm

[Skiller]

Originally posted by G O L L U M (smeagol):

It is a virus. Any of your files could be infected by that virus. It is not a specific file that was infected, though. Just quarantine virus. I advise you to use Malwarebytes and scan your computer. It is really effective.

do you think through that virus maybe someone read my heroes & generals account password when I enter it ?

[Ov2]

Originally posted by Skiller:

Originally posted by G O L L U M (smeagol):

It is a virus. Any of your files could be infected by that virus. It is not a specific file that was infected, though. Just quarantine virus. I advise you to use Malwarebytes and scan your computer. It is really effective.

do you think through that virus maybe someone read my heroes & generals account password when I enter it ?

Virus in computer acts "the same" idea as the real life virus. It replicates, doing malicious things to the file and other files in that same device as well as replicating but not all viruses are information stealers and those aren't as many as you think, only certain types of them and those viruses steal private information and their virus consist of encryption and decryption abilities as well as logging, etc.

The IDP.generic is related to the "identity protection" detection component of your antivirus. There are 2 cases though that played in.

1st case, the files that detected performed task or act the same as malware or virus which triggered the antivirus. That could be means the file that detected is infected by virus.

Or the 2nd case is false positive, where the antivirus just wrongly flagged files that aren't infected by virus as infected virus. If it happened to you everytime perhaps it is a program bug where it flagged almost every files. Because I was Avast user before (I uninstall it -_-) and the Avast has this bug where the Identity Protection detection component literally flagged almost all files and consider those files performed task or action that is the same as malware or virus did. Maybe they fix it already tho..

Before you delete that, you should check it with other antivirus just to make sure it is not a false positive. Though IDP.generic is more often a false positive instead the real virus so better to check it.

[şamelinho]

Originally posted by Skiller:

Originally posted by G O L L U M (smeagol):

It is a virus. Any of your files could be infected by that virus. It is not a specific file that was infected, though. Just quarantine virus. I advise you to use Malwarebytes and scan your computer. It is really effective.

do you think through that virus maybe someone read my heroes & generals account password when I enter it ?

Well, it is very unlikely. I mean, there are nearly no account-stealer script kiddies in this game. Also, they need keylogger for it and they have to send you a save.dat and you need to open it to get your account scammed. I think Yakov Yutanev is right. I used to have Avast before, too. It flagged unlikely folders as viruses before, just like counter strike. So that I got myself a better antivirus program.