avast download Win32 Evo-gen

Viruses and worms
1

I just went to the avast homepage to get the avast online installer to use on another computer and something got detected as Win32:Evo-gen [Susp] ???

Whats happening here?
https://i.imgur.com/8kDJRPL.png
https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/e56cce576f1f6b92a72e654c2a4650fa04ba8da3d3d714029044b132b30774f4/analysis/1450670930/
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6cc8fa3cbed217750dd26b544a7d3fe362423ec8a09cce2081913ee84a988cdf/analysis/1450603564/

2

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

3

Hello,

this file is not detected with the latest VPS.

4

That is not the avast homepage.
The avast homepage is https://www.avast.com

VirusTotal does not scan websites/webpages as clearly mentioned on their website and has been told many time here and on other places.

You can download the latest online installer through :
https://www.avast.com

The full installer(s) can be downloaded from here :
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=179855.0

5

I know what the avast homepage is and how to get there, Eddy, otherwise I wouldn’t be here. When I go to the homepage and click “free download” however, avast decides to redirect me to cnet for the installer. This doesn’t seem to happen on firefox though, only google chrome for me. I just tried on firefox and still got a warning from avast on the homepage as well.
https://i.imgur.com/nRupjBg.png

Why can’t the homepage be more simplistic and have just one source for the installer? Why does it have to redirect me to cnet at all?

6

Looks like a infection on your system.
I suggest you follow these instructions :
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

7

Umm no, actually my system is clean I run malwarebytes scans on a weekly basis and all is good. It has nothing to do with my computer, the website is triggering a false positive when I go to download which goes straight to the virus chest. And the redirects to cnet is regular behavior of the homepage as per this avast install tutorial video. https://youtu.be/A9O0zYv-5d0

I get it probably doesn’t have high priority on the to-do list but fixing these things would make the website better to navigate.