Malware-gen found in uninstall.exe 11/19/2013

Hi all,

First post please be nice.

I am really keen to start using unity it looks awesome but this jumped up on install.
I understand unity has had a bit of a bad rap when it comes to malware and stuff due to its delivery method but I was hoping you could let me know if this is just a false positive or maybe I should hold off on using this product.

  • downloaded the install from the legit site
  • free account
  • am running avast
  • also running PC tools firewall (dont hate)

Thanks heaps guys I hope you all have a wonderful week.

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Hi,

I understand unity has had a bit of a bad rap when it comes to malware and stuff due to its delivery method

It has? That’s the first I’ve ever heard of it! A quick internet search reveals nothing to me other than a few ill-informed forum posts from several years ago. Can you provide more info about other reports of malware in Unity? - I’m sure many users here would want to be informed.

Given the fact that Avast has objected to Unity’s webplayer, and the stated reason being “malware-gen” (which, as far as i can tell, is Avast’s way of saying “I don’t know what this is so I’ll just tag it as offensive”), I’d guess that it has thrown a false positive because the webplayer contains code to access and download data from the web (clearly, in order to work…).

If you downloaded from http://unity3d.com/unity/download, I think you can be relatively assured there’s no nastiness in Unity (obviously you can’t 100% guarantee that in any closed-source product, but nobody else has made a fuss about it here that I’m aware of)

Uninstalling and removing all the traces of avast is very difficult. This is due to the reason that it has ( like many other anti virus softwares) a self protection to guard against being manipulated by malware. This in turn effects the normal uninstall process within windows as well. You can go to https://appuals.com/uninstall-avast-using-avast-removal-tool/ and find several methods to delete avast.