DDU is being flagged as malware by hitmanpro

[Arbiter051]

This just happened today when I decided to do my weekly scans. I uploaded to virustotal and it seems kaspersky, zone alarm and some antivirus I have never heard of flag it as malware. Nothing else flags it.

I originally downloaded it from guru3d. I deleted the folder and downloaded from guru3d again, didn’t use it, did another scan with hitmanpro and it flagged it again

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it a false positive?

I scanned with emsisoft emergency toolkit and Zemana portable, neither of them flag it as malware.

Thank you

 

[boju]

Shouldn't be anything malicious about ddu as many many people use it so would think and assume it's safe.

Maybe install a newer version of ddu if available. Where did you download ddu from?

I did read just now a popular anti rootkit utility was also detected as false positive in a review by pcmag.

In future if there are more false positives get rid of it. Wouldn't want to get into frame of mind second guessing it's judgement.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

It's a false positive if you downloaded DDU from the official partner site:

http/www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Every AV has varying degrees of mis-reporting, using virustotal is a good way of making a judgement.

 

[Arbiter051]

Guru3d is where I got it from using the east coast mirror download.

I’ve been using ddu for years and it just now popped up. Should I tell hitman pro to ignore it? I am quite paranoid about security so I freaked out a little bit.

 

[boju]

It should be fine

Official site https/www.wagnardsoft.com if you want to test. Perhaps ddu has updated something so it's not falsely flagged.

 

[Arbiter051]

Alright ty for the help.

I’m still curious if anyone has experienced this. I read on a few sites that windows defender flags it as a Trojan with a weird name