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Former Member
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Hi, my Acronis Active Protection is flagging 7 files in the WCG/BOINC client as possible ransomware. So I've uninstalled the software and deleted the BOINC folder.
Kind regards, Paul Here's a couple of screen snips from the alerts:   |
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yoerik
Senior Cruncher Canada Joined: Mar 24, 2020 Post Count: 413 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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security software often flags BOINC as ransomware - I had the same thing happen months ago.
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Obviously a false positive.
----------------------------------------Here's the VirusTotal analysis of the file in your first image: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c01584622...f2218605ad9a1fa/detection Acronis itself says it's clean. Your AV probably didn't like something and it's behavioural component flagged it, I guess. WCG is an IBM initiative and all the software has undergone a security review by IBM.  - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz [Edit 2 times, last edit by Mosqueteiro at Aug 25, 2020 8:29:43 AM] |
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