is it safe installing recuva? virustotal didn't find threats epxept for 1 of its sandboxes flaged this file as MALICIOUS

[Miguel2013]

virustotal link <
I can't find comments on the flagged warning and the xml links from the comentaros show a parsing error, can someone tell me more about this flag for the recuva installation from virustotal?

 

[Bill_Bright]

Assuming you got Recuva from their official site, yes, it is perfectly safe to install and run Recuva. In fact, it is considered one of the better, more respected file recovery tools out there.

I think we need to be realistic here. I just ran the 32-bit version, recuva.exe, against Virustotal and you are correct, "1" sandbox tagged it as malicious. But 70 security vendors said it was safe. 70! 70 security vendors said it was safe and not one said it was malicious. Clearly, that 1 sandbox is tossing up a false positive.

Then I ran the 64-bit version (recuva64.exe), the version most of us should be using, against Virustotal and it passed with 100% success.

Remember what file recovery tools do? They dig deep into the drives, looking for files and bits of files that were deleted. To an unsophisticated program, it may appear as though Recuva is being too intrusive.

Remember too that Recuva has been around for 15 years! You don't get to stick around that long, continue to be recommended, and maintain a good reputation for 15 years if malicious.

 

[Miguel2013]

Assuming you got Recuva from their official site, yes, it is perfectly safe to install and run Recuva. In fact, it is considered one of the better, more respected file recovery tools out there.

I think we need to be realistic here. I just ran the 32-bit version, recuva.exe, against Virustotal and you are correct, "1" sandbox tagged it as malicious. But 70 security vendors said it was safe. 70! 70 security vendors said it was safe and not one said it was malicious. Clearly, that 1 sandbox is tossing up a false positive.

yes a false positive likely, I'll try testdisk and recuva at the same time for same deleted files and partitions i encounter. testdisk was recomended and is open source and the interface is terminal command line plus there are multitude of boot CD variants, the interface seems intelligent as asking for file system selection to scan for. I'll try recova now and ccleaner as seems interesting too

-testdisk is terminal menu interface selector so pretty cool

 

[Bill_Bright]

Just remember, the more you use a drive (especially if a boot drive) the less your chances of any recovery become since the OS will start overwriting disk space with temp files.

 

[chrcoluk]

From official site yes, and superior to its commercial competitors.

 

[Mussels]

You could just click that one report and investigate what they say, it'll likely have some generic error about potentially unwanted or an automatically flagged file