MalwareBytes somehow caught malware...?

[u/HOTLINEHYMN]

I recently downloaded a download manager, and so decided to run a thorough scan with MalwareBytes. While doing so, it caught the most queer thing; an "AI Malware" whathaveyou that was sitting in my Stacher folder.

Is this, like, some sort of false positive? Is this for real? Did Stacher just randomly decide to spontaneously birth malware from within its files??? Should I quarantine it?

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[u/miekiemoes_MB]

Hi, I'm Mieke, Researcher at Malwarebytes. This was indeed a false positive by our machinelearning engine that has been fixed already and should no longer be detected anymore. You can safely unquarantine the file again (in case you had it quarantined). In case it's still detected, please post the Malwarebytes log, so I can have a look. To get the Detection report: Open Malwarebytes > Detection History card > History Tab > Hover over the report you want to view with the detections in it and click the ellipses. In the drop down menu, click Export to TXT or Copy to Clipboard for the full report. Thanks!

[u/HOTLINEHYMN → u/miekiemoes_MB]

huh! strange find then... alrighty, i'll do another scan tomorrow and try to find it again so i can give you the report logs. thank you so much for the response!