cute pdf writer download blocked by avast shield

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp
the program cutewriter.exe is blocked from download from avast. i have used this known good program for years. what gives.

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what detection name is given by avast?

forget it, i see it here
VirusTotal - First submission 2014-03-10 00:37:37 UTC ( 3 months ago )
https://www.virustotal.com/nb/file/c25e751c467b09a3d7ca10159b91d7a76eb8a9bc883d5c1ee894b4f3027e26a3/analysis/1402774981/

have sendt file to avast lab and reported False Positive :wink:

ESET and Nano say bundled… so there may be a PUP bundlet with it … possible ask toolbar ?

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[edit]It is not packaged with a toolbar. It prompts the installation of third-party free GPL Ghostscript by default (PS2PDF). This may be why it is now getting flagged.

This false positive is frustrating, as I have never had this problem before. Why is this procedure now a problem?

[edit]

from: http://cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Now, they could lie about it, but “FREE software for commercial and non-commercial use! No watermarks! No Popup Web Ads! No Adware, No Malware!”.

Also, “GNU Ghostscript is a free open-source interpreter for the PostScript language and the PDF file format.
It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.”

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I just realized, my unattended install runs an Ask Toolbar uninstaller 3 times to thwart the ask toolbar installation. I guess it has been so long since I manually installed CutePDF, I had forgotten about the toolbar.

My unattended install also installs a newer version of Ghostscript, and uninstalls the old version prompted by the CutePDF installer…

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