I had to delete my Skype account and now after having downloaded again and clicked on setup, Avast tells me it is a virus and puts in the Virus chest? I have tried it several times but have had to new downloads as Avast removes it from my Download box.
I have Skype on Ipad and on a Desktop computer with no problem at all. The Desktop also has Avast installed.
Can anyone advise what to do. A senior and too technical so simple help would be appreciated :-[
Will you please provide a link of where you are downloading Skype from? I will test to see if I receive the same result.
I’m having the same problem. If I scan the file for viruses it comes up clean.
I have even tried to add the file to the scan exclusion list but to no avail
http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-windows/downloading/
Will you please attach an image of the warning you are receiving?
I am unable to duplicate this and virustotal comes up clean. → https://www.virustotal.com/file/ca47b37d095706d5138621373c3f8d85c4c2052ccf6b85a9830755d3b136540d/analysis/1360785232/
You can submit this as a false positive from the virus chest. Go to maintenance then virus chest.
Right click on the file and select ‘submit to virus lab’.
Please see attachment to view an example.
Well what can I say just as I was going do as you suggested I had to shutdown my laptop for a while and have just reopened and decided to give it one more go, so once again been onto Skype to re-download, this I did expecting that Avast would throw it into the Virus box. Well you could have “knocked me down with a feather” - this time it has worked. I have no idea why. It took about 4 attempts of downloading and trying to install to get it working. Perhaps it needed a rest :o Thank you anyway for trying to help it is very much appreciated 
It could very well have been a VPS update that fixed it.
See here. 13.2.2013 - 130213-2 → http://www.avast.com/virus-update-history