Description of the issue: How can this issue be reproduced? 1.Downloaded updated brave in win 11 2. Surfshark flags up dangerous file in download and quarantined it 3.Stopped installation as it had stalled Expected result: **Brave Version( check About Brave):**latest download version on your …

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From https://brave.com/download/ I’ve now discovered despite the alert and quarantining of the downloaded file the latest version of Brave has installed. Maybe a Surfshark fault, I wouldn’t normally expect that.

I would recommend you to scan it on virustotal once.

Here’s the results [IMG_20250725_092940] [IMG_20250725_093107]

I’ve honestly never seen that before. @289wk @Mattches Do you have any idea on this?

@Clock ‘ https://community.brave.app/search?q=virustotal%20in%3Atitle%20order%3Alatest ’ [image] The installer of Brave is detected as a Trojan by Antiy-AVL (mechanism used in VirusTotal) Browser Support @Markook , Thank you for reporting. I’m forwarding this information t…

I wouldn’t trust everyone, but Brave has gained my respect over many years.

Yeah this is likely a false positive – happens frequently. If you downloaded the installer from the official website then it’s highly unlikely there is anything malicious. Will reach out to some security folks and see if we can submit a false positive report to SurfShark for review.

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289wk July 25, 2025, 3:26pm 8

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