Window defender detected trojan phonzy

ander35 · Aug 11, 2023

Windows defender detected trojan phonzy. It was able to remove it but I reinstalled windows 11 just to be safe.

This blows my mind. I had bit defender plus on and I was careful what I downloaded. I have very little faith in windows security, Mac is light years better. But I hate macs keyboard it is basically a touch screen which I abhor. I Love my surface 5 lappy.

No more downloading anything anywhere unless it is from ms store or a mainstream major software. One of the things I downloaded was a software that makes windows 11 look like 10. Back something it is called. And I have downloaded registry tweaks from different windows forums. Was this likely a false positive since bitdefender missed it?

flashh4 · Aug 11, 2023

Windows Defender doing it's job this time, most trojans are not detected by Defender !

Try3 · Aug 11, 2023

Ander,

It might or might not have been a false positive.
You've already overwritten the Windows security protection history records that might have helped decide which.

You have Bitdefender? So how was [Windows security] Defender able to get involved - a deliberate scan?

Perhaps that 'Back something' was StartAllBack. I have never used it but others do. See, for example, StartAllBack - ElevenForum

I generally only use Registry tweaks provided by TenForumsTutorials & ElevenForumTutorials.

All the best,
Denis

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ander35 · Aug 11, 2023

Yes it was startallback. Pretty sure that is where I got it. Can you get a virus from downloading a registry key?

I figure it was a false pos if bit defnder missed it but windows defender full scan caught it.

Try3 · Aug 11, 2023

ander35 said:
Can you get a virus from downloading a registry key?

You do not download Registry Keys.
What you might download is something else [that you might use to take some action upon Registry Keys].
You might, for example, download a .reg file or perhaps a reg command in a batch file.
There might well be malware hidden inside downloads that pretend to be something innocuous.

Denis