Enyone else seeing a (false positive?) virus warning for EditPad.exe?

Viruses and worms
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I’ve been using EditPad (a Windows notepad replacement) for years but it just got identified as a virus and deleted today. This happened on both my desktop and laptop computers. I attempted to reinstall it from a CD-ROM backup made in 2006 and that file got pegged as a virus by Avast. I’ve considered the possibility that something is infecting the EXE file as it’s being unzipped, but my two computers use different unzipping utilities, so it seems a little far fetched.

Avast says it’s Win32:Evo-gen [Susp]

2

avast doesn’t detected as being malware.
It detects it as Win32:Evo-gen [Susp]
Susp = Suspicious.

https://blog.avast.com/tag/false-positive/
https://blog.avast.com/2012/12/03/new-toy-research-lab/

3

Whether Malware or “suspicious”, Avast still deleted it from my computer and won’t let me re-install it.

4

Report it and wait till avast has fixed it, which could even be in the next streaming update or (for now) set a exclusion for it.