i was teaching a friend of mine, some C code, and i wrote this code:
printf(“blablabla\n”);
For my surprise, avast declared it as a Trojan, and didn’t allow me to execute the program :S
this is kinda wierd…
What version of avast do you have Home or Pro ?
What was the malware name given, file name and location, etc. right click the avast icon and select avast! Log Viewer, if you can check the warnings section and post the contents of that entry ?
Well, i’m not at my friends house, so i cannot give much details, here it is a printscreen that i did, when the thing, ocoured.
I hope it can helps a little 
Clay, and anyone else interested, the sit eyou posted a link to gets a red rating for extreme popups from siteadvisor.
Personally not willing to enter the site and find your image.
lol ?!?!? ermm Sapo is my ISP :S
and btw, the link, is a direct link for the JPG file so you dont need to open with a browser, if you want, you simply download the image…
check it for virus or what ever you want, if you still don’t trust
btw, dont try to open the site with this link http://claymore.no.sapo.pt/
the website has no index.html
i just use that acount to save images, nothing more
OK, this is all I get when I click on your link.
And, interestingly, siteadvisor now thinks it’s OK. How odd.
Please, pack the compiled executable (the one incorrectly detected) into a password-protected ZIP or RAR and send it to virus@avast.com (with a subject like False positive).
Thanks.
Igor, how do you get this written without getting it activated as a link?
virus@avast.com becomes blue and live when I write in forums : ???
That’s because I wrote it in boldface… nothing more. On the other hand, it might be better if it actually were a clickable link… don’t know.
Interesting, use any text effect and the link isn’t active like italics virus@avast.com or a colour virus@avast.com or change the size virus@avast.com and it looks like the email address is treated as text.
Maybe it’s becouse it’s adding a character other than a space before/after the link. I’ll try a test,
http://forum.avast.com/index.php
Yep. That worked.
Not sure what you are testing as there is a difference between email addresses (which don’t have/require a tag [ url ] like a url, etc. The example we have been looking at is an email address.
By adding a text formatting option to a URL [b]http://forum.avast.com/index.php[/b] applies the text effect Bold in this case, without making the link live. The above may then be handy if you don’t want the link to be active, rather than have to wrap it in the code tag.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php
I was just testing if it was possible to format a url (in this case, bold) and still have it work. It does. I imagine an email address might behave the same way? I thought that’s what your post at 2255 concerned. So you leave a space between the format indicators [#]space"url"space[/#] and the url, it remains live.
This started because Tech asked how Igor managed to post an email link without it being live (clickable). Mainly because there are times when we don’t want to make a link live, suspect location, etc. so I was curious how it happened and to see if it could be replicated with other text effects and for a URL.
You can also use a link with meaningful text like the DropMyRights link in my signature were you can apply text formatting to make it stand out.