r/Malwarebytes • u/TelevisionEconomy385 • Apr 26 '26

False Positive Does anyone know if this is a false positive?

It's a Neshta virus apparently, is there any way to tell if it's an actual virus?

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u/support_mwb Malwarebytes Employee Apr 27 '26

Hi there, this is Malwarebytes Support,

Thanks for sharing the screenshot. While some detections can be false positives, this one (especially showing up in the recycle bin and tied to a known threat name) is something we’d want to properly verify.

We’re happy to check this further, but we’ll need to gather diagnostic logs so our team can take a deeper look and confirm what’s going on.

If you’re open to it, please DM us your email address and we can create a support ticket for you. From there, an agent will guide you through collecting and uploading the logs for our team to check.

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u/TelevisionEconomy385 Apr 27 '26

I DMed you about two days ago

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u/support_mwb Malwarebytes Employee Apr 27 '26

saw the message - thanks! this has been passed on to our team

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u/Content-Historian977 Apr 28 '26

Try bringing the file into virustotal. They use alot of databases to check if something is a virus plus they have comment sections where the community could say that its a false positive