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In the meantime, and out of curiousity, how do I keep Avast from restricting access to the .exe file? It wasn’t blocked, deleted, or quarantined. I’d click the “X” titlebar icon to close the popup malware alert because all choices were negative; i.e., none were for Ignore This Time or Ignore Always (put in exclusion list). Do I add false alerted programs to Avast’s exclusion list?
By the way, when a file is added to Avast’s exclusion list, does it save a hash value for the file to know THAT file gets excluded and not a copy of it that might get modified later (by updates or malware)? If so, and if I specify a folder instead of just a file, are hashes recorded for all the executable files in the folder (and recursively into all subfolders)? If it’s just a path rule then it seems to open a hole in security in that the excluded files could be modified and are no longer the ones you chose to excluded before.