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I have had Emby Theater on my main PC for several months and only use this client rarely since I generally use Roku/FireTV clients. However, it has never previously caused a problem with Bitdefender although I don't believe I've opened it in about a month.

 

Today, I opened the Emby Theater for Windows x64 client app and initially I could watch a couple channels. But, while scrolling through the live program guide, all my fans started to roar on the computer, everything froze for about 20 seconds while the fans were all fully engaged, and then Bitdefender announced it had detected malware and suspicious activity and had taken action.  I built this PC myself with all retail packaged brand new top-shelf components in January and have not had any kind of threats detected by Bitdefender before today.

 

Here is what Bitdefender said happened:

 

Threat name
Atc

Blocked app name
C:\Users\Computer\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Theater\system\x64\mpv\RefreshRate.exe

 

It then listed all the files it said had become infected by RefreshRate.exe and quarantined them.

 

These are listed as:

 

electron.exe

mpv.com

mpv.exe

Emby.Theater.exe

Mediabrowser.Updater.exe

f71d6f4242de272ae733970412eaa2b0_fce8395c8fd8a999_5ae85d3cb828f8fb_0_0__1.bin

f71d6f4242de272ae733970412eaa2b0_fce8395c8fd8a999_5ae85d3cb828f8fb_0_0__0.bin

 

Since Bitdefender has not previously choked when I've opened Emby Theater, but I haven't opened it in at least a month, I'm not sure if Bitdefender has suddenly started throwing out false positives when it never previously did, or, has the refreshrate.exe program become dodgy?

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Yeah, bitdefender can be a bit of a douchebag. Just add it to the safe apps list.

Posted

The refreshrate.exe executable has not changed in a long time either.

  • 3 years later...
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7 minutes ago, blackwhitebear8 said:

i just installed emby theater aswell and my AVG antivirus aswell instantly removed it flagging it as virus. Tried serveral times now and everytime it finds something else in Emby.Theater.exe.

virustotal also says it has virusses in it: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/11abf75c8f77ddb0078e7dd62a2eaae60dba244c113bc7893a7e56bc6527163e?nocache=1

That’s odd. We’ll have to submit a false positive to them. Thanks.

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