Avast is stopping me from debugging my program

Viruses and worms
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I have a simple little Unity Assets Monitor that takes a Unity project path, and outputs a csv file and a text file. It is released, and I have had no problems until today.

Today I updated my lists with a few additional file extensions, then tried to run a debug test from within Visual Studio 2015 Community. The program built, but when it tried to launch Avast threw up a Win32.Evo-gen(Susp) pop-up message, and promptly removed the file.

I tested creating a release build and debugging that directly within VS, and there is no problem, it only happens when running in debug and clicking start within VS. Please could you investigate. I have submitted the file as a false positive for you.

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https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14433.msg1289438#msg1289438

https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB228#artTitle

also test your file(s) here www.virustotal.com

3

Digitally sign your application and check if it solves the problem.

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It’s not the application that is the problem, I can launch the built debug application fine, for some reason it is when VS starts debugging this application from within VS in degub mode the problem occurs. If I do exactly the same in release mode, there is no problem.

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Hello,
send us the detected file, please. You can use https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php or https://support.avast.com/support/tickets/new

Milos

6

Hi,

I submitted this via the system tray app as a false positive when it occurred. I can submit the file again, but this issue only occurs when the debug build has the debugger attached. The debug build runs fine on it’s own. I think this is more to do with the interaction of the debugger and the app.