ClamAV and VirusTotal say Steam/bin/x64launcher.exe is infected

[Stanley]

ClamAV detected it first, then I ran it on VirusTotal and Google also flagged it as infected.

Is this a false positive?

[DarkCrystalMethod]

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[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Stanley:

ClamAV detected it first, then I ran it on VirusTotal and Google also flagged it as infected.

Is this a false positive?

Likely yes. Did you read the name of what they detected? I bet it's something like "Gen" or "Heur".

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Just scanned mine and this is what it say. 99.9% sure it is just a false positive.

ClamAV
Win.Malware.Lazy-10041084-0
Google
Detected

I googled "Win.Malware.Lazy-10041084-0" and it came back with nothing on that detection from clamav. So yea it's a false positive.

[Muppet among Puppets]

How did virustotal claim its infected? And who did detect it?

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Here is the virustotal scan results and i firmly believe that it's a false positive and that clamav and google is 100% wrong.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/217f5553067c0ae5a72fb7909a0ff78493e17dcb594c78bb1a4ffc4726adc004

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Basically the same answers here...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/601892477917486523/

[Muppet among Puppets]

If the user gets the same result, and has not installed something randomly on the computer, it should be ok

[Realigo Actual]

Somebody at Google also has access at ClamAV and is misbehaving?

Misbehaving now more visibly that is.

[Stanley]

Originally posted by ↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect:

Just scanned mine and this is what it say. 99.9% sure it is just a false positive.

ClamAV
Win.Malware.Lazy-10041084-0
Google
Detected

I googled "Win.Malware.Lazy-10041084-0" and it came back with nothing on that detection from clamav. So yea it's a false positive.

Yep this looks like what I got too.

[Chalupacabaras]

Yes, it is a false positive.

Virus Total only approves actual infections.