AV false positive for amb-xfer installer

a user reports his Avast free AV marked my app’s installer as infected with Win32:Adware-gen. i don’t think this is possible as i use the NSIS app to create the installer and have no adware. please take a closer look. the one flagged is amb-xfer-1.33.14-install.exe that you can download from http://www.focussat.net/ambos/ui.html

You can report a suspected FP (File/Website) here: https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php

thank you. bummer that that page is impossible to find by searching the site :frowning:

IP flagged twice: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/204.61.31.13/detection
See: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/204.61.31.13/relations

polonus

interesting. 2 out of 85? really? i’m all for being careful, but what’s a guy to do? i access that IP in my .exe to get the users’s outside ip address. my own routine that just returns the IP in plain text. easily readable. all the ‘whats my ip’ sites throw a ton of junk at you and nowadays don’t even give you the ipv4 address. there’s a ‘community vote’ on that second page. maybe if i sign up and vote it will help? or is there another way to get one’s (outside) IP in ‘c’ code?

Hi dave-colorado,

Whenever you have reported it to avast, as Asyn proposed you’d do,
it is a matter for avast web team to come and unblock.

So let us wait and see what is their final verdict.

I just forwarded you VT’s reports information on that particular IP and detections.
Just for general info purposes.

Also avast sometimes follows other’s long overdue detection repertoire.
(e.g. McAfee’s that has a bad reputation in this respect, etc.)
but will remove detection when established detections as to be genuine FPs.

Have a nice day,

polonus