Getting "Misleading:Win32/Decyste"

Getting "Misleading:Win32/Decyste"

Is this a false positive?

It looks like the program has various names that come up doing a search, but they all point to a system cleaner that makes fake claims about your OS supposedly needing fixing.

This misleading program makes fake claims about files on your PC.

Just to be sure, D/L & run Malwarebytes to see if it finds anything & if it does, remove it.

Borg 386 said:

It looks like the program has various names that come up doing a search, but they all point to a system cleaner that makes fake claims about your OS supposedly needing fixing.



Just to be sure, D/L & run Malwarebytes to see if it finds anything & if it does, remove it.

I'll try Malwarebytes later

Ran Malwarebytes.

Misleading:Win32/Decyste doesn't show

But PUP.Optional.WinYahoo does.

fjk61011 said:

Ran Malwarebytes.

Misleading:Win32/Decyste doesn't show

But PUP.Optional.WinYahoo does.

If Malwarebytes doesn't find it that's usually a good sign, but there are always new variants of malware coming out. That doesn't necessarily mean something isn't there just because it didn't find it. Or indeed it could be a false positive.

I'm guessing Defender is the one making this find? The sites say Defender finds it & removes it.

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