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Oh okay, thanks. I don't know how it compares with Eset for example. My antivirus said the files were clean, but the virustotal results are really sketchy.
It's not like traditional antivirus software, it just includes a tool that you can use to manually scan files to see if it has a virus signature, which is all Eset and most virus scanners are doing on the backend. They're also doing what's called heuristics, which is where they're using predictive modeling to try and identify if a program has what they call an attack signature. This does result in false positives, just so you're aware.
All virus total is doing is running a bunch of virus engines like eset and clamav on the back end to see if it triggers anything.
If both your virus software and clamav comes back clean, then I'd trust it.
Would you trust it if the detection is 0, but there are network connections? (contacted domains and contacted IP addresses)