Hitman 2.exe virus? W32.Trojan.Gen

[Elskebass]

I just got an analysis from VirusTotal of my hitman2.exe file and it reported back with a W32.Trojan.Gen. I blocked the file from my firewall and googled, but I have no idea what's going on... I'm thinking it's some kind of mistake from VirusTotal, but the strange thing is that a similar report yesterday came back with no reports of any virus - also GlassWire has recently detected a change in the application executable (Hitman2.exe). Can someone please shed some light on this for me?

[Nikolaj]

they removed Denuvo, so, the new hitman exe changed and your antivirus don't know what to do

[TommyEV]

False positive.

[DeathRow]

the devs are trying to hack you

[Aemony]

The VirusTotal report speaks for itself, I think: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/852c10d2314fe5b37194838c15bf28c8f42364a76b61ac26406fc1bcb4d22f69/detection

[Shoebsy]

The specific issue comes from the webroot.. Which means the issues is connected to their website/servers/so-on-so forth.

The "W32.Trojan.Gen" is what it's trying to discribe it as. It's saying there is something of caution that looks like (X). and plenty of regular programs that have permission, do the exact same thing.

That doesn't mean it's an actual Trojan, or even affected by a trojan, And since Hitman 2 has stats gathering from players, Them taking that information could be related to that.


Either way. It's not actually on your computer, but the worst case scenario is that along the lines. someone knows your playing hitman 2.

[Elskebass]

Thank you Kiroshi!

[Jurassic Fart 2]

Webroot user here.

It's a false positive. Webroot SecureAnywhere quarantines it, but you can restore it with just a few clicks, adding the EXE to the whitelist. There is no such malware in your Hitman 2 directory. The false positive was caused by a heuristic behavior match; code in the last update made some aspects suspect by heuristic analysis. It doesn't actually mean that the file was indeed infected.