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by alt_comp_virus on October 3rd, 2003

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What is a false positive?

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  • by Master Selwood on July 22nd, 2009

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    A false positive is something marked as harmful, when infact it is perfectly ok. Take Anti-Virus softwares, they all have false positives, its just some like Avg, Avast etc that pick up something, that there not even supposed to pick up, like a false alert.

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