potential false positive, fmodex.dll

[Thursday434]

Hello, I'm wondering if this is a false positive (I hope it is since the file has been on my PC for some time).  It is a file called FMODEX.DLL, it was in a folder for a SNES emulator that I have had for a number of years on my D drive, and I copied the same emulator to my F drive about a year ago, so that is why it found it in 2 different locations.

It was detected when doing a Full system scan with rootkit enabled yesterday (it was detected within the first 10-15 minutes of scanning which really worried me since the full rootkit scan generally takes nearly 4 and a half hours).  The thing is I normally run a full rootkit scan about once a week, and nothing was detected last time I scanned (last Friday) or any of the previous scans.

When I took the file out out of quarantine today to zip it up to attach it here to this post (I hope I am doing it correctly), Malwarebytes doesn't detect it as being malicious at all when scanning the folder or the individual file itself (I left the copy of the file from my F drive quarantined).

Here is the log from the scan and the file

fmodex.txt fmodex.zip

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Hi,

This isn't detected anymore.

[Thursday434]

ok so it is safe?  I assume it was a false positive, but if I didn't try to check or follow up, I would have been worried.

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Yes, it was a false positive.

[Thursday434]

ok thanks, trying to be more careful about not jumping the gun with things that are false positives, had to do a system restore after panicking on May 19th and deleting the 50 some odd things that were quarantined by the Malwarebytes scan back then (that turned out to be legitimate Windows scheduled tasks that were just false positives...)

[TwinHeadedEagle]

Yes, that was an unfortunate false detection and a lot of people panicked.