<![CDATA[General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX]]>General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/56759/general-my-anti-virus-detected-a-malicious-file-in-opera-gxRSS for NodeSat, 16 May 2026 03:43:25 GMTMon, 18 Jul 2022 16:27:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Mon, 25 Dec 2023 05:59:13 GMT]]>@lexisuperman What's the exact path where it finds that file? I don't have that file and don't know what it is.

Would be good to goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "install" path, close Opera and uninstall Opera (but don't choose to delete your data when uninstalling, unless you don't mind starting over). (Before you do that though, it might be good to goto the URLs opera://mods and opera://extensions and remove all your mods and extensions.)

Then, delete the install folder as it will be left behind with a few things in it.

Then, delete everything in "C:\Windows\temp" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\temp".

Then, download Opera GX from https://www.opera.com/download#opera-gx in another browser (Edge for example), launch the installer, click "options", uncheck "import data from default browser", adjust all the other options as you like and install.

Would be good to scan your system specifically with the free version of Malwarebytes too.

Would be good to upload the exe to https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload too to see if it's just one or too silly heuristic detections that flag it as a trojan or if a whole bunch of engines do.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/338219https://forums.opera.com/post/338219Mon, 25 Dec 2023 05:59:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Sun, 24 Dec 2023 09:24:08 GMT]]>I have same problem my anti virus has find malicious file operaconnect140.exe it says it has trojan in it i tried searching it on google but i cannot find any thing.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/338166https://forums.opera.com/post/338166Sun, 24 Dec 2023 09:24:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:27:19 GMT]]>@stevewright-0 High ml score? Anything that says Heuristic is automatically suspect - they are saying it looks similar to malware but it isn't any particular one.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/293077https://forums.opera.com/post/293077Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:27:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Sat, 05 Nov 2022 23:29:11 GMT]]>@ririchiyoz Tested the installer on VirusTotal today and got this 😮

Cylance Unsafe
Malwarebytes Malware.Heuristic.1003
Trapmine Malicious.high.ml.score

Here's the link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4ca55ecbf81a932ba8947f526fc94c4ee2dbbb9e8e76215210a24d4d509a4ca3?nocache=1

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/293076https://forums.opera.com/post/293076Sat, 05 Nov 2022 23:29:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:09:32 GMT]]>@burnout426 Neither. I disabled everything possible in Opera GX to see if the problem persisted, and unfortunately it didn't help. I never had this problem. It started yesterday. I stopped using Opera in the meantime

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/285742https://forums.opera.com/post/285742Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:09:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:15:01 GMT]]>@ririchiyoz Using Opera's adblocker and tracking protection with any custom lists?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/285722https://forums.opera.com/post/285722Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:15:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:51:32 GMT]]>@burnout426 thanks for the tip, but unfortunately the problem persists only in Opera GX. I removed all the extensions I had (none were Twitch related), cleared the cache, reinstalled.. and nothing worked. I tested it on Edge and Chrome and didn't face any problems.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/285701https://forums.opera.com/post/285701Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:51:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:45:08 GMT]]>It's most likely a false positive cause by Windows Defender's heuristics. Some users of other browsers are seeing it when visiting twitch.tv also.

However, if you have any Twitch extensions at the URL opera://extensions, especially Twitch adblocking extensions, remove them and see if the alerts go away. Read somewhere that someone recently bought a Twitch adblocking browser extension from something and the new developer started putting malicious code in it. Something to research.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/285700https://forums.opera.com/post/285700Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:45:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:13:15 GMT]]>@ririchiyoz had similar problem only different named virus

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same when i tried to open twitch

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/285693https://forums.opera.com/post/285693Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:13:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:57:08 GMT]]>@kar4tash Same problem here. It only happens when I try to access Twitch

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/285687https://forums.opera.com/post/285687Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:57:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:29:09 GMT]]>@kar4tash For some reason, your antivírus thinks that something from a page you've visited is malicious.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/285677https://forums.opera.com/post/285677Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:29:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to General My Anti-virus detected a malicious file in Opera GX on Mon, 18 Jul 2022 21:15:49 GMT]]>What the hell is this?

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]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/285667https://forums.opera.com/post/285667Mon, 18 Jul 2022 21:15:49 GMT