Home backup & restore: is the software infected?
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Hello.
My antivirus software (Sophos) interprets the backup software you recommend in one of your articles today (It's the perfect backup tool for Windows: it's free and much better than Microsoft's solutions) as a threat to my PC's integrity.
In fact, when I try to download HomeBackup.exe V 11.4 (and not the ZIP file) from the GitHub site (), it indicates several threats like Mal/Generic-S and CXWeb/Generic-W.
Although the check on the VirusTotal site () is reassuring, it's quite different, at least from my understanding of the information provided by a check on the Intelix site ().
Is this tool downloadable without fear since it would be an example of a "false positive" (attributable to the executable extension?) or is it truly a contaminated file to avoid?
Thank you in advance!
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Hello,
The VirusTotal analysis I just did of the executable (the other one, the .zip, is the source code):
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/45931e7ae522b07c0f920294aa44783ae5ecb90aa515c19df48c3ccb41425564?nocache=1
After trying it on a virtual PC, the program works, nothing extraordinary but it works.
It doesn't seem to be infected, no trace of a virus from executing this executable, and it works, that's a good sign.
I believe it's a false positive.
Hello again,
Note that some viruses do not execute when they detect that they are running on a virtual computer, not a physical one.
The file size indicated to me that it was not at risk; at that size, it cannot contain any "Extras"...
I finally tested it on my main PC, and no more issues.
I just haven't tested the restore with the program, but it does perform the backup.