During the installation / launch of an application, your antivirus may start to swear about the threat in the person of IDP Generic. Today we will tell you what kind of “beast” it is and whether it is worth being afraid of at all.
What is IDP Generic?
The main thing is, don’t panic! Let’s guess: do you have a free version of Avast or AVG installed on your computer? If the answer is yes, then you have nothing to worry about, because the file found with IDP Generic is most likely a false alarm.
Countless cases have been documented in which such antiviruses have found IDP Generic in perfectly legal and safe files. For example, some users claim that they had this virus in a newly downloaded game from Steam. As you can imagine, this is simply impossible.
Why do these false alarms occur? It is difficult to give a clear answer to this question, but there are suggestions that the reason is an outdated free antivirus database. Also, a simple bug should not be ruled out. Anyway, if you are sure that everything is fine with the file marked with IDP Generic, return it from quarantine and add it to exclusions. And don’t forget to update your antivirus!
But here’s a much more important question: could IDP Generic be not a false alarm, but a real threat? The answer is, of course it can. If, for example, it was found in a file completely unfamiliar to you, which lies somewhere in the bowels of the Windows OS, it may be a virus! Install a more reliable antivirus on your PC (or even use Windows Defender) and run a deep system scan, and then get rid of the threat!
