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Heroic EpicGamesLauncher.exe false positive? - Heroic Games Launcher
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radical-lime
Heroic EpicGamesLauncher.exe false positive?
windows
✅
solved
C
:
\Users
\mzziliac
\AppData
\Local
\Programs
\heroic
\resources
\app
.asar
.unpacked
\build
\bin
\x64
\win32
There resides a
"EpicGamesLauncher
.exe
" that got flagged by malwarebytes
.
VirusTotal has a 26
/72 Detection rate
.
H
a
s
h
:36fcd337ed9396ec7a6263864fafb944fe2bcf70c965c3fe99ce4c0cca572fe2
Obviously a third party could
've dropped it in this directory
,
Im just wondering if anyone else has this
Solution
this happens sometimes
, it happend way more before
, but it
's a false positive
the source that
's compiled into that file is public
https://github.com/Etaash-mathamsetty/heroic-epic-integration
GitHub
GitHub - Etaash-mathamsetty/heroic-epic-integration: Wrapper proces...
Wrapper process for games launched through Heroic Games Launcher
- Etaash
-mathamsetty
/heroic
-epic
-integration
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