Zyzzyva

[PBob]

The North American Scrabble Players Association (NASPA) just released the newest version of Zyzzyva with the most recently adopted Scrabble dictionaries on 2/28/2019. 

http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/w/NASPA_Zyzzyva:_The_Last_Word_in_Word_Study 

After installing, Malwarebytes quarantined the program. 

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-Log Details-
Protection Event Date: 3/3/19
Protection Event Time: 3:21 PM
Log File: 3e532cd8-3dfa-11e9-946c-5cf9dd987ef2.json

-Software Information-
Version: 3.7.1.2839
Components Version: 1.0.538
Update Package Version: 1.0.9524
License: Premium

-System Information-
OS: Windows 10 (Build 17763.316)
CPU: x64
File System: NTFS
User: System

-Blocked Malware Details-
File: 1
MachineLearning/Anomalous.100%, C:\Program Files (x86)\NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.0\zyzzyva.exe, Quarantined, [0], [392687],1.0.9524

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zyzzyva.zip

[miekiemoes]

Hi,

This is detected by our MachineLearning engine, which helps to protect even better against 0day threats. Unfortunately, as this is a heuristic engine, it's possible False Positives happen. Also see here for more explanation: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/238670-machinelearninganomalous-detections-and-explanation/
Thanks for reporting these, as this helps to finetune the engine, so these won't be detected in the future anymore.

This should be fixed by now. Please give it some time (max 10 minutes) in order to have it populate, so detection won't happen anymore.
 

[PBob]

Thank you so much!