Question Clamscan reports infected files in Maldet dirs

[Peter Downes]

Hi Community

I have run a Clamav on my VPS and it returned the following report.
I am wondering if these are 'false-positives'.

Do you think I should remove them?

Thanks

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clamscan --infected --recursive --exclude-dir="^/sys" /

/maldet-clean.tgz: {HEX}gzbase64.inject.unclassed.15.UNOFFICIAL FOUND

/usr/local/maldetect.bk19268/clean/gzbase64.inject.unclassed: {HEX}gzbase64.inject.unclassed.15.UNOFFICIAL FOUND

/usr/local/maldetect/clean/gzbase64.inject.unclassed: {HEX}gzbase64.inject.unclassed.15.UNOFFICIAL FOUND

/usr/local/maldetect.bk19709/clean/gzbase64.inject.unclassed: {HEX}gzbase64.inject.unclassed.15.UNOFFICIAL FOUND

/usr/local/maldetect.bk19709/tmp/.lmdup.10844.19618/maldetect-1.6.2/files/clean/gzbase64.inject.unclassed: {HEX}gzbase64.inject.unclassed.15.UNOFFICIAL FOUND

/usr/local/src/maldetect-1.5/files/clean/gzbase64.inject.unclassed:{HEX}gzbase64.inject.unclassed.15.UNOFFICIAL FOUND

/usr/local/src/maldetect-current.tar.gz: {HEX}gzbase64.inject.unclassed.15.UNOFFICIAL FOUND

/clean/gzbase64.inject.unclassed: {HEX}gzbase64.inject.unclassed.15.UNOFFICIAL FOUND

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 6393130
Engine version: 0.99.2
Scanned directories: 58614
Scanned files: 292504
Infected files: 8
Data scanned: 20146.78 MB
Data read: 71326.57 MB (ratio 0.28:1)
Time: 3645.146 sec (60 m 45 s)
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[Peter Downes]

Found this for anybody who follows me.
maldetect + ClamAV false Positive · Issue #87 · rfxn/linux-malware-detect · GitHub