After every weekly scan on my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit PC at work, Panda Free Antivirus claims an item in Brave is the PUP/RNKBend virus and puts it in quarantine. Panda has come up with this result every week since I updated to Brave using the Chromium base. Please see the attached screenshot.
Panda Free Antivirus does not seem to have a version number I can report. I can assure those reading this that I have it set to take all updates. I also find it interesting many search results say PUP/RNKBend is related to something called Securedisk.exe that is supposedly a CPU miner.
I will be glad to answer any other questions to assist in solving what this is about even though I’m guessing it is a false positive.
When Brave gets flagged, are you able to manually allow/whitelist it so that you can still update/use Brave? Or do the files get quarantined or erased?
Thanks for your confirmation this is a false positive. I’m answering from home where I use Brave on Linux Mint instead of Windows 7 as reported above. I am 99% certain I can whitelist that file in Panda so it will not come up again. I will do so when I return to work on Monday. I intentionally did not whitelist it previously because I figured, if Panda or Brave did not fix the issue on their own after a few weeks, it would need to be reported here in its fully natural state. I have actually been letting Panda quarantine the file and it does not seem to have affected Brave at least with how I use it. It’s possible it might be causing an occasional issue where, upon the first start, Brave closes quickly and I have had to re-start it. However, after the restart, Brave runs like a champ with no other issues. I will keep an eye out for that after I whilelist the file to be certain that is not a separate issue.
