Virus or potentially unwanted software?

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laurinkeithdavis
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Virus or potentially unwanted software?

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I am getting this message about a file not being backed up: "Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software".

The file in question does get flagged by AV at times as it has a keylogger in it, but I do want to back it up (it's AutoIt).
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Which file is being flagged? Which antivirus?
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Re: Virus or potentially unwanted software?

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This is an automatic mail message from Cobian Reflector. You will find the log files below this text.

Cobian Reflector 2023-03-26.txt


Cobian Reflector 2023-03-27.txt

ERR 2023-03-27 02:38:40 An error occurred while copying "C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxxxxxx\AppData\Local\NuGet\Cache\autoit.install.3.3.16.1.nupkg" to "E:\Backup\xxxxxxxxxxxxx\xxxxxxxxxxxx\AppData\Local\NuGet\Cache\autoit.install.3.3.16.1.nupkg": Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software
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This message comes from the OS. My guess is that this is Windows Security Antivirus reporting the file.
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Odd, I only use Defender and while I can see in it's history, it's flagging this file in volume shadow copy, not the original.

FYI, I have notifcations turned on for this post (and all interactions), but I do not receive email notifications.
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Odd, yes...
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A lot of antivirus triggers happen when a file is read, if the antivirus thinks the file is being opened, it might stop it and unless you run a full system scan it might not find it.
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:OK
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