Avast pro 8.0.1483 with Virus Defination 50.65.597 raising lot of false alarms

Viruses and worms
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Hi.

This is Abhay Bhave. I own a small institute, and have been using avast free version for last 5-6 years very happily. Recently one of my students mistakenly clicked on “Upgrade” and it went to PRO, which I have not registered, and hence updates are unavailable.

One of the courses in my institute is “C Programming”.

When I teach very basic programs in C, many a programs (Even the one calculating max of 3 numbers) as false positive. I have checked every program that is reported positive, and is not doing any potentially dangerous or even technically non-recommended operations. Basically all are 10-15 line educational programs.

Can anybody guide me about the issue?

Thanks and regards,

Abhay Bhave

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Avast pro 8.0.1483
old avast version .... we are now at 8.0.1497
Virus Defination 50.65.597
where do you see this? as avast VPS number does not look like that. http://www.avast.com/virus-update-history
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You can upload and report FP to avast here: http://www.avast.com/contact-form.php

you can also use mail

send to virus@avast.com in a password protected zip file
mail subject: False Positive
zip password: infected

or you can send files from avast chest
how to use the chest. http://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB21