Native-Component.exe on VirusTotal.com flagged as malicious

[Dan Man]

The lack of MRU tabs in Edge is driving me bonkers.  They don't allow Firefox at my place of employment.  How is it possible that a mainstream browser doesn't have an MRU tabs option built-in?  Firefox has had it for as long as I can remember.

Anywho, someone suggested Tab Switcher, and I see that I need to install Native-Component.exe.  Since this is a company laptop, they are really, REALLY sensitive about installing anything that doesn't come from the internal "software center".  I checked the link to VirusTotal and was surprised to see that: 

3 security vendors and 1 sandbox flagged this file as malicious

Although numerous vendors flagged the file as "Undetected", three did not:

> Cynet:  Malicious (score: 100)

> DeepInstinct:  MALICIOUS
> MaxSecure:  Trojan.Malware.7175203.susgen

It probably won't matter to my employer that the vast majority of vendors found nothing suspicious.  I dunno whether these three vendors have a reputation of unjustified false positives.

Please advise.

[AutoControl support]

Tab Thumbnails Switcher is a stripped-down version of AutoControl. Using the latter you will be able to customize your tab switching functionality to a much greater degree.

The following page shows a number of alternatives to configure AutoControl as a MRU tab switcher.

https://www.autocontrol.app/switch-to-last-used-tab-in-chrome

Regarding the VirusTotal false positives; thanks for mentioning that. A report has been sent to those 3 vendors so they can review and solve the case. Those false detections should disappear in the coming weeks.

[Dan Man]

I will be happy to give AutoControl a spin once I get approval from our security group.

I noticed that MaxSecure doesn't get a lot of love out there as a reliable source of virus detection.

[Dan Man]

DeepInstinct still marks this as MALICIOUS.  Have you been in touch with them?

On Friday 1 March 2024 at 15:01:05 UTC-5 AutoControl support wrote:

[AutoControl support]

We haven't got any response from them, unfortunately. A new false positive report was submitted today. Hopefully we should have news during April.

[Dan Man]

VirusTotal still shows DeepInstinct marking the file as "Malicious".  Can you ping them again?

[AutoControl support]

Due to the lack of response from DeepInstinct, we've contacted Virustotal.com and asked them to intercede on the matter.

We'll update this thread when we have news.

[AutoControl support]

Good news. DeepInstinct has finally solved their false positive. AutoControl is now passing with zero detections.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/994e14d2bb306607c158c6799e0661c90ee1a480378aca969c9397e4712a4c38/