The most common cause of this false positive flag is usually an outdated definition of your antivirus program. VirusTotal file result What causes IDP.Generic to be false positive?
On the other hand, if the VirusTotal flags your file as a threat then we recommend you perform a full scan with your antivirus. You should also update the antivirus program. If it doesn’t then simply ignore the warning and add the file to the whitelist. Click here and click Choose File then select the file flagged by your antivirus. VirusTotal is a website where you can upload files and it will tell you whether the file contains any malicious component. What we recommend is to either use another antivirus program to see if that catches the same file or use VirusTotal.
Now speaking of idp.generic, although most of its cases are false positives, you still shouldn’t ignore it completely. In general, you shouldn’t ignore any warnings from your antivirus programs. Your files will be flagged by this whenever the file does something identical to malware that triggers the flag. IDP generic means that the detection was detected by an Identity Protection detection component of your antivirus and it is a generalized file that got detected. Once done, proceed with the solutions below.
Repair Corrupt Filesĭownload and run Restoro to scan and restore corrupt and missing files from here. So, a lot of users are worried and want to make sure whether it’s malware or a false positive. Obviously, when your antivirus detects such viruses in files related to your games, you wouldn’t be able to play your games or other programs. idp.generic/IDP GenericĪlthough this threat detection isn’t specific to antivirus the majority of the users who experienced this was using Avast antivirus. This IDP.Generic threat isn’t related to a specific file so there is a wide range of files that might be detected as infected with IDP.Generic.įor example, some users were experiencing the IDP.Generic threat with their game files whereas some users saw this threat while using a python file. Basically, your antivirus will send you a notification that it caught a file infected with IDP.Generic. A lot of Windows users are getting the IDP.Generic virus detection on their files.
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