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Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2022 8:24 pm**

Today I started Duplicate Cleaner 5.0.13 and was notified that version 5.14 is available. I downloaded, installed and ran it; found some duplicate photos which I marked for deletion. When I clicked on the Delete Files button, Malwarebytes kicked in and said it stopped a ransomware attack and quarantined 'Duplicate Cleaner 5.exe' . I uninstalled 5.14 and went back to 5.0.13 and all is well. Has anyone else seen this? It's no doubt a Malwarebytes false positive but you never know and I don't want to second-guess ransomware alerts.

Windows 10 Pro 21H2 64-bit
Malwarebytes Premium 4.5.5

Rob

Posted: **Sat Mar 12, 2022 2:24 am**

Update: Malwarebytes has recognized this as a false positive and whitelisted the program. Sorry for the "fake news".

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:44 pm**

Installer download file: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/719 ... ?nocache=1

Zipped copy of Program Files: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/891 ... ?nocache=1

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Malwarebytes flags Duplicate Cleaner 5.14 as ransomware??

Malwarebytes flags Duplicate Cleaner 5.14 as ransomware??

Re: Malwarebytes flags Duplicate Cleaner 5.14 as ransomware??

Re: Malwarebytes flags Duplicate Cleaner 5.14 as ransomware??