Avast Home detects non existant Win32:Trojan-gen in HeidiSQL

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I am the project lead of HeidiSQL, a Windows-GUI for managing MySQL databases. We had the last release in April 2007 and recently I got mails from 2 users telling me that their Avast Home detects “Win32:Trojan-gen” in the installer. This is definitely a fault detection as we testet the installer quite thoroughly and it was downloaded by many 1000’s of users. Nobody told us there is a virus till now.

Please help your customers by fixing the relevant virus signatures.

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Please submit a sample to virus@ avast.com. Send it in password protected zipped email. In the body of the email include the password, a brief description of the problem (false positive) and anything else you feel relevent.

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To know if a file is a false positive, please submit it to JOTTI or VirusTotal and let us know the result. If it is indeed a false positive, send it in a password protected zip to virus@avast.com
Please, mention in the body of the message why you think it is a false positive and the password used. Thanks.
VirusTotal and Jotti both have file size limits 10 and 15MB each.

As a workaround, you can add these files to the Standard Shield provider (on-access scanning) exclusion list.
Left click the ‘a’ blue icon, click on the provider icon at left and then Customize. Go to Advanced tab and click on Add button…
You can use wildcards like * and ?. But be carefull, you should ‘exclude’ that many files that let your system in danger.
After that, please, periodically check it - scan it into Chest, right clicking the file - there should still be a copy in the chest even though you restored it to the original location. When it is no longer detected as being infected then you can also remove it from the Exclusion list.

This link is a tutorial on how to help correct a virus detection that you believe to be false:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=25009.msg204838#msg204838
or http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=7779.msg62586#msg62586

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Thanks for your info and sorry I didn’t see the sticky postings. Just sent out the zipped file as described.

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No problem and thanks for reporting this. Welcome to the forum.

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Thanks for helping improving avast detection.