Avast Free forces me to allow all VBS, or breaks things seriously!

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Very funny! >:(

I have to use certain VBS files acting as modules for my file browser. Avast stops them from working. So far, so good. But why in the world isn’t there an option “allow this specific script”, or other ways to white list some scripts? Instead, i am prompted to send some false positive report, which doesn’t make sense for some script, that maybe a handful of people would use.

Why can we put only whole paths to the exceptions list, instead of real files, which would make a lot more sense? Now i had to allow all VBS scripts, in order to keep Avast from breaking my program.

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Ofcourse you need to specify the path.
file.ext in one folder can be legitimate wile a file with the same name in a other folder can be malicious.

And you sure can set exclusions per file.
There is no need to set a exclusion for all files of a certain type.

https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB168

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Thank you, that worked! I must have clicked the wrong item, or just tried to navigate, instead of pasting the script’s name. 8)