Anyone Else Get a Threat Message with IrfanView 4.50? [RESOLVED]

Chim · 2017-10-10T20:53:30.000Z

I just finished installing the new IrfanView 4.50, which I downloaded from Major Geeks. I don’t believe I even got around to actually bringing it up. I think I was barely closing the last IrfanView window after the install was finished when avast throws up a Threat blocked window. I have included an attachment image of it.

Anyone else experience this?

I was going to send the alleged threat file to VirusTotal, but the file is not at the location indicated by the path. I guess that’s because it was blocked.

bob3160 · 2017-10-10T22:12:16.000Z

Downloaded and installed the 64 bit version from http://www.majorgeeks.com/
without any problems. No notification from Avast.
Even checked the file before installing - No warning.

Chim · 2017-10-10T22:35:33.000Z

Let me go install it again and see what happens. I had already uninstalled it.

DavidR · 2017-10-10T23:00:24.000Z

I have just downloaded and installed 4.5 over my old 4.4 version and no issue.

Pondus · 2017-10-10T23:11:16.000Z

I reported it as FP after @Chim first post, so they may have fixed it

Chim · 2017-10-10T23:24:00.000Z

I must admit that there IS a difference in my environment and y’all’s. I have avast 12.3.2280 and this version certainly doesn’t seem to like something about IrfanView 4.50. b[/b]

I installed it again … and again, right after closing the last IrfanView window, avast threw up a Threat blocked message.

Then I conducted an experiment. I scanned the setup files for both IrfanView 4.44 and IrfanView 4.50 with avast, SAS and MB3 around 4 times each. IrfanView 4.44 would always pass all 3 scans with flying colors. IrfanView 4.50 on the other hand, every time that MB3 was scanning, avast would flag MB3 with a Threat blocked message like the 2nd one that I have attached.

Odd.

Pondus · 2017-10-10T23:29:22.000Z

Win32:Evo-gen [susp] = Suspicious

the other hand, every time that MB3 was scanning, avast would flag MB3 with a Threat blocked message like the 2nd one that I have attached.

Have you sett exlucions for for MBAM / avast > avast / MBAM

Chim · 2017-10-10T23:33:12.000Z

Yeah, I know what y’all are gonna say — “You need to update to the latest avast 17!!!”
Well, right now I cannot do that. A couple of weeks ago, my sister’s laptop, the one on which I would periodically download my apps updates finally went kaput. So, now I no longer have that High Speed Internet source to use for large footprint apps.

Up to now I have had no problems with my avast 12.3.2280. This IrfanView issue is the 1st time.

Thanks for reporting it as a false positive, Pondus.

Thanks for chiming in with info, Bob … David.

Chim · 2017-10-10T23:39:17.000Z

Pondus post:7:

Win32:Evo-gen [susp] = Suspicious

the other hand, every time that MB3 was scanning, avast would flag MB3 with a Threat blocked message like the 2nd one that I have attached.
Have you sett exlucions for for MBAM / avast > avast / MBAM

I vaguely recalled talk around here that avast and MBAM / MB3 no longer get along very well. But, that said, though, I found it odd that why did avast allow MB3 to scan the IrfanView 4.44 setup file successfully all 4 times … while the scan of the IrfanView 4.50 failed ALL 4 times?

DavidR · 2017-10-10T23:52:48.000Z

I don’t think that this is avast version specific, I would have thought it more VPS, weird.

I have avast free 12.3.2280 on my win7 netbook, I have just installed it on that and no alert from avast.

Chim · 2017-10-11T00:28:36.000Z

Is it the 32-Bit version that you have tried, David?

Milos · 2017-10-11T07:27:06.000Z

Hello,
thanks for notice, FP should be fixed now.

Milos

DavidR · 2017-10-11T07:31:52.000Z

Chim post:11:

Is it the 32-Bit version that you have tried, David?

Yes, my XP ans win7 systems are both 32bit systems.

One thing that I didn’t do was update the existing plug-ins, so I don’t know if that is where the problem lies.

But it looks like Milos has it fixed now.

Chim · 2017-10-11T13:54:22.000Z

Awesome! I installed IrfanView 4.50 now with NO problems.

Thanks, Milos … David.

DavidR · 2017-10-11T15:26:24.000Z

You’re welcome.

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