Is ReShade GI Beta 0.17.0.2.zip safe?
No engine detected a threat in this longstanding, widely submitted ZIP, and independent intelligence sources supplied no known-malware or matching-rule evidence.
None of 75 antivirus engines flagged the archive, including 17 tier-1 engines. It has circulated for years across hundreds of submissions without corroborating threat intelligence, although no completed runtime analysis is available.
e8bd9fd0c09acd986c…7bbde41ab82d01Recommended next actions
Before opening or extracting
Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
If you already opened or extracted it
Keep normal device protection enabled and stop if the file behaves unexpectedly.
Intelligence
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The reasoning behind this verdict
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None of 75 antivirus engines flagged the archive, including 17 tier-1 engines. It has circulated for years across hundreds of submissions without corroborating threat intelligence, although no completed runtime analysis is available.
The archive received no malicious or suspicious detections from 75 antivirus engines, with all 17 tier-1 participants reporting no detection. It is more than five years old and has appeared through 462 unique sources across 496 submissions, supporting an established rather than newly introduced file profile. Malware-family intelligence and researcher rule matching produced no hits. Code signing is not meaningful for the ZIP container, so the lack of a signature does not count against it. No runtime observation or complete contacted-host reputation check is available, limiting conclusions about any extracted content.
What We Detected
None of 75 antivirus engines flagged the ZIP as malicious or suspicious. All 17 tier-1 engines that participated, including Avast, BitDefender, ESET-NOD32, Kaspersky, and Microsoft, reported no detection. The file has also been seen across 462 unique sources and 496 submissions over more than five years.
Threat Behavior
No malware-family intelligence, researcher rule matches, brand conflicts, or triggered heuristic risks were present. However, behaviour=null means there was no completed runtime observation, and contactedHosts=null means no complete host-reputation result is available. These limitations prevent claims about how extracted files would behave when loaded or executed.
What To Do Now
Keep endpoint protection enabled and scan the extracted contents before use. Obtain the archive from the project’s official release channel and compare its hash when an official checksum is available.
Where this verdict could be wrong2 caveats
- behaviour=null, so the archive and any enclosed content were not observed executing.
- contactedHosts=null, meaning no complete host-reputation result is available.
These are the assessment's weak points. If you believe one applies to your file, report the verdict and we'll re-review it.
- 0/75 engines reported a malicious or suspicious result.
- 17 tier-1 engines reported no detection.
- Observed through 462 unique sources and 496 submissions over 2,153 days.
- MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL supplied no threat-intelligence hits.
- No heuristic rules or brand mismatch were triggered.
- No completed runtime observation is available for the archive or extracted contents.
- No complete contacted-host reputation cross-check is available.
The archive may be used with routine caution after confirming it came from the official project channel. Keep endpoint protection enabled and scan extracted files before loading them.
Coverage & freshness
Complete means the check returned a usable result. It does not mean the file is safe.
Antivirus
Complete0 of 75 engines flagged the file.
Sandbox
PartialRuntime data is present, but no completed sandbox environment is recorded.
Network
Not runNo contacted-host reputation check is recorded.
No timestamp recordedYARA
CompleteRule evaluation completed with no recorded matches.
External intel
Complete3 of 3 independent reference sources completed.
Behavior
Plain-English impact first, then the observed runtime evidence.
Runtime behavior was not available
The report does not treat a missing runtime observation as a clean result.
Detection & Forensics
Consensus, attribution, signatures, code structure, prevalence, and identity.
Evidence integrity
Chain of custody for the facts preserved in this report.
- 0rule hits recorded
- 0 / 75engines flagged
- 462sources in submission history
Why these facts are shown
Each statement identifies whether it was directly recorded or derived from saved scan facts.
- 01
0 of 75 antivirus engines flagged the file.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceObservedSourceAntivirus analysisObserved at - 02
The hash has a long, established submission history across 462 sources.
Verdict inputView chapterProvenanceDerivedSourceSubmission historyObserved at - 03
No completed runtime observation is available for this file.
ProvenanceDerivedSourceRuntime coverageObserved at
Detection sources at a glance
The available sources did not agree on a named threat category.
MalwareBazaar, YARAify, and CIRCL hashlookup completed and returned no entries for this hash.
YARA rules
No matchesThe rule pass completed without a saved public match.
0 of 75 engines flagged this file
View all 75 engine results
PE structure
Not applicablePE structure analysis applies to Windows executable formats, not this file type.
How widely this file has been seen
Widely seen in the wild for a long time. High prior this is legitimate; isolated detections on common-old files are usually false positives.
Fingerprint and provenance
- File name
- ReShade GI Beta 0.17.0.2.zip
- Format
- ZIP
- Code signing
- Not applicable to this file type
- Size
- 22.9 KB
- Last analyzed
- Sep 24, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC
e8bd9fd0c09acd986c65781e8c93fa950f5af6de62dc79688c7bbde41ab82d01Safety & FAQ
Complete recovery guidance and answers for the next decision.
What to do now
This file appears low risk based on the evidence available now.
- Recovery step 01
Open or extract it only when its sender or download source has been independently verified.
- Recovery step 02
A clean result reduces known risk, but it cannot guarantee that every new or targeted threat has been detected.
- Recovery step 03
Keep your antivirus and Windows updates switched on so you stay protected.
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