Can not submit a false positive URL report of WebShield even in 2014.9.0.2009

Consumer Products Public Beta Avast Antivirus Beta
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“Report the file as a false positive” of WebShield does not work in case that the file is included in an installer, a SFX file or an archive file.
The problem of 2014.9.0.2008 which I reported on November 23rd ( http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=140711.0 ) continues in 2014.9.0.2009.

Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (Japanese)/ avast! free 2014.9.0.2009/ Privacyware Privatefirewall 7.0.30.2/ Firefox 25.0.1, NoScript, RequestPolicy
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Unfortunately that was a problem in the .2008 version that still hasn’t been resolved in this beta. I ended up doing manual submissions from the http://www.avast.com/contact-form.php?loadStyles Report false virus alert on website and just copy and paste the actual URL of the website and file name.

I think the problem is that, the URL is validated against the alert URL and when that has additional characters after the URL like the |> and all characters after that aren’t legit URL characters so fail this validation.

Unfortunately they don’t strip out everything after (and including) the |> so that the URL is valid. Or allow the URL being submitted to be edited removing the |> and everything after it.

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This problem still exists in Avast 2014.9.0.2010.
I tested it at EICAR site http://www.eicar.org/download/eicar_com.zip .

Intel Core i7-3770/ 8GB RAM/ Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (Japanese)/ avast! free 2014.9.0.2010/ Privacyware Privatefirewall 7.0.30.2/ Firefox 26.0, NoScript, RequestPolicy
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This problem still exists in Avast 2014.9.0.2011.

Intel Core i7-3770/ 8GB RAM/ Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (Japanese)/ avast! free 2014.9.0.2011/ Privacyware Privatefirewall 7.0.30.2/ Firefox 26.0, NoScript, RequestPolicy