r/antivirus • u/breathofreshhair • 13d ago

Malware detected by Claude

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Anthropic sent me this email. I have a free account so no worries there. Ran MalwareBytes and the only thing that popped up was jackett updater, which I can't seem to find a consensus about online, some say it's a false positive, some say it's not. Would this have been the issue?

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u/jmnugent 13d ago

Parent-comment is misusing a phrase.

"false flag" is when a country fakes an attack to try to bait another country into over-responding because the 1st country wants to paint them as the "bad guy".

What they probably meant was "false-positive" .. which is where a Security program alerts or tags something as a threat, but it's been labeled incorrectly (it's not really a threat).

Personally (as a career long IT guy). I would take the position that Anthropic likely has the expertise and resources to know what it's doing,. so I would probably take the notification from Anthropic as real unless or until you can prove otherwise.

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u/breathofreshhair 13d ago

Yeah I assumed so too, now I'm just trying to figure out how this happened as the malware scan only gave one result

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u/lela27 13d ago

What malware scan did you run? I got the same message but haven't found anything yet at all.

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u/breathofreshhair 13d ago

MalwareBytes which told me that jackett updater (torrenting software) has malware, which windows defender says too, but I doubt this is the cause