little-apps / LittleRegistryCleaner

Little Registry Cleaner is an open source program that is designed to cleanup the Microsoft Windows Registry.

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Antivirus detects this tool as malware

portalrule123 opened this issue · comments

  • message when running "Little Registry Cleaner.exe":

Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software.

  • When scanned with Windows Defender directly, it is detected as "PUADIManager:Win32/OutBrows"

  • When scanned with VirusTotal, 14/72 security venders flag the file as malicious: report link

I do not know if the tool is actually malicious as I am not knowledgeable enough to examine the code, but I will not be using it because of this.