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Chris Mayville

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May 22, 2025, 10:13:00 AMMay 22
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My name is Chris Mayville.  I have been running Boinc Client 8.2.1 and getting like wu from Primegrid, srbase, etc.  I ran my antivirus  scanner and it found an win64-evo generic trojan in the boinc 8.2.1 installation file and some other files in client install directory.  I need to find out what this trojan is as I may have to delete boinc client 8.2.1 and install like 8.0.2 again.  Giving heads up to this

rebi...@web.de

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May 22, 2025, 11:12:33 AMMay 22
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Hello Chris,
 
what antivirus program are you running? It must be false positive by heuristic detection.
 
-Reb
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Magnus Lindroth

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May 22, 2025, 12:15:40 PMMay 22
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Only my two bits, but the virus name 'win64-evo generic trojan' reminds me of something similar that I had, in a different situation, years ago, where my Avast Antivirus reported on Samsung's EVO series monitor program.
Seems like it could well be a false positive - could a scan be done on a different machine, without a Samsung EVO card?

Vitalii Koshura

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May 22, 2025, 12:56:35 PMMay 22
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That's probably again a false positive detection of the screensaver.

Best regards,
Vitalii Koshura

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Чт, 22 мая 2025 г. в 18:15, Magnus Lindroth <mn.li...@gmail.com>:

Chris Mayville

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May 25, 2025, 6:54:46 PMMay 25
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Norton 360 for gamers.  I am using high aggressive scanning for viruses, and malware.  Was found in setup file for Boinc  3.2.1 BOINC-setup x64x86.exe file and some of the slot directories prime grid, srbase, numberfields@home etc.  These are where Trojan was detected.

Chris Mayville

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May 25, 2025, 6:56:07 PMMay 25
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I mean 8.2.1.  Sorry.

Chris Mayville

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May 25, 2025, 6:56:57 PMMay 25
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Boinc client 8.2.1

Vitalii Koshura

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May 25, 2025, 7:15:26 PMMay 25
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Setup is clean: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/efafa6478f420540eeb3a119e36df3d1822d41040dc5e1e61d84f991252c2164?nocache=1

So in your case it's definitely a false positive detection.

Best regards,
Vitalii Koshura


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