Zone Alarm deleted Tor from Brave Browser saying it was a virus

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Hello.

When I clicked on New private window with Tor, I suddenly got a pop up from Zone Alarm saying my computer had a virus. I clicked to clean and it deleted something saying tor not-a-virus is a virus.

Then when I clicked on New private window with Tor, I got a message saying,

No internet

There is something wrong with the proxy server, or the address is incorrect.

Try:

ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED

I realized the Zone Alarm had identified Tor in Brave as a virus. Why it hadn’t up until now, I don’t know. Perhaps it was part of Zone Alarm’s new update.

I uninstalled Brave and then reinstalled it hoping that would fix the issue. It didn’t. I opened up Zone Alarm’s setting and gave Brave ful access. Still it doesn’t work.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Which file did it false positive? Would you mind uploading to VirusTotal for us and sending the link at the top of the browser so I may see the SHA?

Thanks!
-AASB

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