Another False Positive?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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When trying to download jtuc’s 64-bit fork of WinMerge 2011 directly from bitbucket, Avast reports a virus.

The URL is:
https://bitbucket.org/jtuc/winmerge2011/downloads

The file is:
https://bitbucket.org/jtuc/winmerge2011/downloads/WinMerge_2011.004.525_x64_change_7z_to_exe_if_you_want_a_setup.7z

When scanning the file in VirusTotal, it shows that the file is clean. It even shows that Avast reports it as clean.

Why does Avast report a virus on the file when trying to download it, but VirusTotal shows that Avast finds no virus?

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You left out some info … what does avast say?

I guess it is Win32:Evo-Gen [susp] = Suspicious , a on access detection only and will not show in any scan

You can report it here https://support.avast.com > avast virus lab

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Thanks. I didn’t write it down the first time, and now Avast has completely blocked all ability to access the URL in order to provide the information you requested. See this forum post for a description of that problem: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=166467.0

Thank you for your suggestion to report it via the Avast labs. Knowing to report a false positive using that option was not obvious! Thank you for providing the link.