Avira detecting cerberusinstall.exe as virus

[Red Squirrel]

Has anyone ever noticed this? Cerberus is a free FTP server program, and Avira seems to detect it as a virus. Just wondering if anyone else has ever seen this, maybe it just thinks it's a trojan as it listens on a port and technically you could install it on a PC without the person knowing and browse their files.

I'm hoping it's just a false positive and that it's not a virus that somehow infected the installer because I'm running that on a live windows server lol so I hope it's not been tampered with..

 

[n0cmonkey]

It's probably been popular with the black hat hosters. Serv-U used to be the server of choice, but maybe it's Cerverus.

 

[Bradtechonline]

Do you have some sort of potential unsafe applications option selected in avira? I've had avira get a lot of false positives on print drivers on a network share, and other in house applications.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I do have heuristics enabled, which might be it. It might be finding that the app listens on a port + gives access to files, then sees it as a trojan.

 

[chemwiz]

You can go to Avira and submit it with the file type "Suspected False Positive (Not Malware)". I've submitted a couple already, it took about a week before they fixed it. It's a great AV for a freebie, but it does give a lot of false positives.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Guess a false positive is better then a false negative! I'll go submit it but first I should probably see if I can find another copy of it to be extra sure mine is not actually infected somehow, though I highly doubt it.

 

[lxskllr]

Check it at Virutotal.com. and see what the consensus is. Antivir has the occasional FP (18 in my case :^D), but if you download software from reputable sources, you can generally ignore them. System tools are the most likely culprit to give a FP.