Avast went crazy today - removed software development tools

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I’m really blocked by Avast
Starting today, it removed:

  • k9s
  • Helm
  • kubectl

If keeps blocking them after reinstall and adding exception.

It detected WQin64:Evo-gen [Trj]

Never seen anything like that with any antivirus. Is there a remedy or removing Avast is the only way?

2

Hello,
the detected files should be in Quarantine. Can you extract them to some scanner excluded directory and send us for analysis, please? Use the https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php or upload to Virustotal and post link with results here.

Thanks,
Milos

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My Avast also went crazy, starting today. Kubectl was moved to quarantine on my PC as well. I wrote a forum post about it earlier today.

In addition, when I tried to download installation media for Windows 11, it said that the download site for win11 "software-static.download.prss.microsoft.com/… " was on a blacklist??

I am reinstalling Windows even though these likely are false alarms. I’m getting nervous from all these red alert messages… It’s a real bummer to loose almost a day at work due to this…