Hello everyone.
As of recently, a program which I added to exceptions in avast gets detected as a virus whenever I run it and moved to virus chest. Does anyone know what the problem could be? I am running the latest version of Avast.
Report a false positive (select file or website)
https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14433.msg1289438#msg1289438
I am aware I can mark a false positive, but I have no idea how long the update will take for that file to not be quarentined, so I would like to do it manually myself in Avast’s options. Is there another place I can add an exception aside from the obvious one? I also uploaded the file anyway. Thank you for your help.
what message does avast give when detecting ? … malware name given
upload and check file at www.virustotal.com
post link to scan result here
From the report 33, mostly the lesser AVs, are flagging it as a problem but they can not even decide what it is - Trojan, Adware, Riskware or just Suspicious because of a low confidence score. Very unhelpful.
The big boys like Kaspersky and Malwarebytes do not even consider it a threat and neither does AVAST Mobile.
How on earth can the OP know what is safe to do in circumstances like this? Also what the hell is that “More threats might be lurking!” pointless even more unhelpful message doing. If there are more threats lurking AVAST has let them through so it hardly inspires confidence.
Adding it to the Global Exclusions: you must copy in the exact path or paths used to launch it. That can mean including Desktop, Quick Launch or Start Menu shortcut paths separately too depending how you launch it.
From the report 33, mostly the lesser AVs, are flagging it as a problem but they can not even decide what it is - Trojan, Adware, Riskware or just Suspicious because of a low confidence score. Very unhelpful.
A Virus by Any Other Name: Virus Naming Practices
https://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/virus-any-other-name-virus-naming-practices
If you dont read it all, scroll down to Where Do the Names Come From?
@Lizard… this is a private server for a game .exe, which I probably should have mentioned from the beginning, haha.
[b]@Lizard[/b]... this is a private server for a game .exe, which I probably should have mentioned from the beginning, haha.When replying to @Lizard, you should quote him and not my post ;)
@Cluster Lizzard,
Please note the following shown on the website you’re suggesting for helpful information.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1559914523718-65878.png
+1 ???
Just done.
Apologies either I did not see that or with the adblocker I use it didn’t display. I’ll remember to check such details next time.
Nice 
Thanks for the removal. 