Opera is getting detected by Sophos Anti Virus Program as C2/Generic-A malware. Why would this be happening all of the sudden?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/39275/opera-being-detected-as-c2-generic-a-virusRSS for NodeWed, 10 Jun 2026 01:57:50 GMTTue, 24 Mar 2020 19:22:36 GMT60Look at the identification. They are not identifying Opera as an actual virus, but as a type of suspicious program. Usually this is because of the background updater - to them, a program that makes changes to the computer without user interaction is dangerous, esprcially when you don't know what it is installing. As long as it is installing only appropriately-signed updates it is fine - well, if you can trust the signer. If some hacker managed to steal the signing keys, they could wreck your system.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/222702https://forums.opera.com/post/222702Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:24:37 GMTYes, this is happening to me also.
Has Opera figured this out yet. It seems to be embedded in their software.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/222696https://forums.opera.com/post/222696Thu, 27 Aug 2020 02:59:35 GMT@andrew84
For me, it detected at '/Applications/Opera.app/Contents/Frameworks/Opera Framework.framework/Versions/67.0.3575.79/Helpers/Opera Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera Helper

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/203859https://forums.opera.com/post/203859Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:19:35 GMT@tlo234 Where exactly it detects the threat?
I had some weird alert from Kaspersky on Windows recently (19.03).
The threat was found in 'installer.exe' in 'opera autoupdate' folder and in Opera Beta latest installer.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/203858https://forums.opera.com/post/203858Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:18:23 GMT@tlo234 You need to ask Sophos.

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