Colour me confused, but what has this got to do with avast as it doesn’t report this acording to your VT results, so not an avast false positive ?
Your title is misleading in that I though you are saying avast (since you post it in the avast forums) has a lot of false positives, rather than something a little clearer, e.g. smitfraud.exe detected by many AVs as infected. But even that still casts guilt if you don’t add (but not by avast).
But it isn’t uncommon for a tool to be tarred with the same brush as to what it is hoping to detect or detecting some of the tools it uses to detect or eliminate the problem.
Well it is quite common that some of these tools running to cleanse malware, are detected by scanners because they have similar characteristics as malware, and in the hands of the unscrupulous could be used maliciously, therefore they are flagged as “riskware”.
So to say these are simple FP’s is too simply put and out of perspective. This is the so-called grey area. In mentioned case as it is used for deleting malware, the scanners have to exclude it. But who decide between the way these executables are used?
I’m not the one calling them false positives, just that avast isn’t calling it anything but the topic title makes it look like avast has a lot of false positives.
DavidR I wasnt saying that Avast! has a lot of False Positives, I should have made the name of the topic clarify what the post contained more. And SamuelVirucide I uploaded SmitfraudFix.exe to virustotal because it was flagged by Kaspersky online scanner 7 as a “HackTool” and was interested to see how many scanners flagged it as malware.
