avast detecting my development app as trojan

I have been developing an application at home using the Android Development Tools IDE. I have USB debugging enabled on my phone with avast installed (Galaxy Nexus, Jelly Bean 4.2.2) and am using ADT to launch, install the APK and run on my phone. Randomly last night avast started detecting my application as a trojan, specifically “Android:Clicker-B” and “Android:Agent-XQ”. Sometimes when I remove and install, it will display one or the other as the trojan detected. I did a virus scan and it displayed both.

I installed another AV tool on my phone and ran its virus scanner and it did not detect my application as malware.

The application is harmless, it needs basic network access and that is it. I reported the false positive last night from my phone. But I am wondering why it would go from installing and running just find and then when after a harmless code change and a re-launch, it detected these trojans.

Any help is appreciated, or if you need more info from me please let me know.

Edit: So I removed a 3rd party library from my lib directory (which is a very well known, reputable library) which had previously been using for many weeks but no longer needed and the next install of my application did not present as a trojan. So there was definitely some issue with a false-positive.

  • Steve

Hello,

sorry for inconvenience. Its false positive and it will be fixed in next update.

Thank you & best regards,

Filip Chytrý
Virus Analyst