Bitdefender detects my console application as Gen:Variant.Ursu.56053

Question

I've developed a console application that does a lot of routines, but the Antivirus detected it as a malware of type Gen:Variant.Ursu.56053.

How can I fix this without touching the antivirus policy because it's not allowed for us to create any exceptions for any found threat.

I'd like also to mention that If i changed the assembly name the antivirus is no longer consider the new file virus, but it looks that it considers it virus because I invoke it many times, with different parameters.

Any suggestions, I'm really suffering from this,

Answer 1

FALSE +VE ALERT!!! Many antivirus engines have name pattern matching as their Swiss-knife to detect malicious files,If any of them matches the name they have in their Database then you can't do much about it. Its simply became a False +ve !!! Also your assembly name should consist of the technology area and component description, or company name and technology area (depending on your preferance). So try changing it to more specific one. :)

Assuming that you are talking about .NET (with relation to Visual Studio) For Ex:

Project: Biometric Device Access

Assembly: BiometricFramework.DeviceAccess.dll

Namespace: ACME.BiometricFramework.DeviceAccess

Answer 2

I had the same problem with Bitdefender, but mine is a Gen:Variant.Ursu.787553 when I tried creating a .exe file from my C program.

I simply moved it out of quarantine manually, and it worked well. You might have to that every time you build a new program. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

I know this thread is very old, but for people which will come here - to fix this issue simply add icon to the program, im not even joking, it works.