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rouhmaen
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Virustotal detected W32.AIDetect.malware2 in dropbox.exe

Hi,   Virustotal detected W32.AIDetect.malware2 in dropbox.exe:   https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/44bb83a10eba807a9ff68f88dc708fae53615efb2359cfa2d58d18a53da9dfd7/detection   Any idea why t...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    3 years ago
    Could you try deleting the installer and downloading it again?
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Jay
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Could you try deleting the installer and downloading it again?
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paladin4
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

July 22, 2022 - I'm also seeing this detection in VirusTotal. I've tried multiple times today to download the dropbox installer and VirusTotal reports two. I delete it and retry. Each time I get these two errors. Here are the sha256 hashes generated by certutil -hashfile:

 

c836587e94c5907355fc3535efb2a796ef132f6eafdabefa3f531fd645ddf8f8

37aec9048092ca8b1e993177c438351e90277cbe8852b41775568e99b5b3c4fa

f09cf3c34562dedeb333a10de704fbecb24542ce09d396bd110730246c95dff1

47ecd2ad368fab06ef8a817f1abdf2a427241d93715dc818e063e15cd9c3931e

I will try using a different browser (Edge)

 

 

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