Virus Total Scan flagged "GlassWire Control Service"

It appears to be a false positive. This means that a scanner reports that it has found what might be a threat but the threat is unable to be confirmed because it probably never existed.

FYI, a link to the actual report is the best way to report this. It’s easy for the GlassWire team and other users like me to see the report:
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/8fb6c5477ea7ea839f081673f51b5e1e624e05c6009b3e5adf0ccef1d676fcc2/detection

What is the evidence that it is a false positive:

  • No other scanner at VirusTotal reported a problem.
  • VBA32 by VirusBlokada is not considered to be a leading antivirus product so its results carry less weight than other products.
  • You will notice under the Community tab there are five Virustotal members saying GWCtlSrv.exe is Safe and none saying that is Unsafe.
  • There are no confirmed malware infections but other users have, like you, become concerned about similar VirusTotal reports, e.g. Help to determine if my system is compromised

You can read the following articles for further info:


https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/what-false-positive-antivirus-detection.htm