Where to report/submit false positive samples of antivirus software

1. Scan your computer and the file with as many antivirus engines as you can, including the one mentioned by your user.
2. If indeed the file is clean, submit your false-positive sample to the antivirus software that reported it as a virus.

1. Inform the developers and mention the brand and name of your antivirus software
2. Open your antivirus, go to the quarantined items, find the file you just downloaded and chose to submit it for further analysis by the antivirus company.
   Depending on the brand of your antivirus software, this submission may be also be labelled as "submit your false-positive* sample".

If you think the file intercepted by 360 Total Security is not a Trojan horse or virus files, please send it to us for analysis

Submit via a form.

Report a suspected false positive.

Report a suspected false positive. (Requires login)

Report a suspected false positive.

Report a suspected false positive.

Submit suspicious files and URLs, false positives.

Submit a sample file or URL.

Sometimes the Check Point Spyware Scanner inappropriately detects an application as Spyware. If you have come across what seems to be identified as malicious Spyware, but in fact it is not, you can report such detection to the Check Point Security Team. Report a false positive (by email).

Use the following form to report your false positive.
After reviewing your report, the Detection Content Team will review your submission and update the database. Report a false positive.

You have a suspicious file, suspicious website, potential false positive or potential miscategorization by Parental Control (or Web control)that you would like to submit to ESET for analysis.

Submit a virus, website or potential false positive sample to the ESET lab.

Think a file is harmful? Or that a file or website was incorrectly detected or rated? Submit it for analysis.

Submit via form or via FTP.

False detections by Kaspersky products / What to do with the false detections: instructions.

Is Malwarebytes incorrectly flagging a program or website? Report it at the Malwarebytes forum.

For end-users: Submit potential false positives from the product or through Global Threat Intelligence to McAfee Labs. Report it here.

McAfee makes it really hard for both the users to send false positives back to them. By submitting a false positive, the users help the AV companies to fix their threat detection algorithms. So they deserve at least an easy way to do that.

Normally, antivirus software have a button that the user can click to send a suspicious file for further analysis to the company. There is no such option in McAfee.

The users have to prepare a specifically formatted email and provide .sup files. Probably not many users or developers will invest all the effort needed to submit a false positive.

For developers: How to submit your company's software to be considered for whitelisting

Customers, partners, and other third-party software manufacturers can submit their own propriety software for inclusion in the McAfee False Positive Test Rig. This ability to submit significantly reduces the chances of a DAT causing false positives on unique customer applications or data.

Report your false-positive to Microsoft. You will need to login with a Microsoft account.

Submit false positive.

Virus total has also launched a special tool for developers and antivirus vendors, the VirusTotal Monitor. VirusTotal Monitor is a service to mitigate false positives.
You need to create an account on VirusTotal and then request a free period for the VirusTotal Monitor. Pricing for this service is not disclosed.

Report false positive files if you think that a detection made by one of the cloud engines of the Universal AV scanner is not actually a virus or malware. Report False Positive.