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[FalsePositive] Notepadd++Portable is a known trojan

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February 28, 2010 - 11:46am
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[FalsePositive] Notepadd++Portable is a known trojan

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7.0i (updated 25.2.2010) gives this about Notepad++Portable.exe (I changed the name of the executable myself).

NotepadppPortable is a known trojan.

Detected as Generic.dx!nle

This trojan is discovered 14.2.2010.

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February 28, 2010 - 11:51am
John T. Haller
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False Positive

That's a false positive from McAfee and should be reported. Usually when McAfee gets confused, it throws up a 'generic' trojan error, which means nothing.

In the future, check the file using VirusTotal before jumping to conclusions and you'll see it's just McAfee's engine having the issue at the time.

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