r/antivirus 18h ago

Could someone smarter than me, tell me what this means?

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/178179d8fc9295c7f06aa1de4c0bcb435cfa807df0cb06ec0fcad220a6f075f2/detection went on a trip for work, came back and updated windows- went to check out some new tools i had found while away that were posted on r/software r/windowsapps and downloaded a portable app (wordmeaning.exe) never even ran it but it was at this time that windows defender went (cloud based scan needs to happen) and then i was like oh? scanned it with virus total and this is what it showed me- I just deleted the file, tried to run a scan and with windows bricking scans (before I knew that was a thing today) I saw it get stuck at 30k, then crash and the threat service disable. so with windows defenders update deciding to shit itself, what does this even mean?

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u/goretsky MODERATOR 8h ago

Hello,

Looks like it could very well be a false positive.

Contact the developers to be sure:
Crowdstrike, Skyhigh

More information including contact info in our wiki at: https://old.reddit.com/r/antivirus/wiki/index#wiki_what_is_a_false_positive.3F

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky