These can include a program displaying advertisements on your PC for a specific time period. Malware is a term used for denoting any harmful software, file via backdoors that provide hackers with full control over your PC. What does this mean for the security of my PC? Gen file states that a 32-bit file present on your system might be infected. An alert from the antivirus program installed on your PC that shows the detection of a Win32 Malware. The Win32 Malware.Gen is a Generic threat that appears to be harmful to your antivirus program but does not resemble the behavior shown by a threat. This is done by comparing the file’ content with a database of known threats and then analyzing the behavior or the structure of the program to check for any behavior as shown by malware.
Antivirus programs deploy a number of techniques to confirm whether a file is infected or not.
