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Viruses and worms
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why is it that your anti virus see every software on my pc as a threat, even vlc.exe i’ve downloaded on official site it deletes it
damn this fake very fake…

2

Impossible to answer unless you give some info

what did avast say? … what detection name was given, you may post a screenshot

If you think it is wrong, report it to avast lab

Report a false positive (select file or website)
https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14433.msg1289438#msg1289438

3

Hi Nadina,

Could have been an InPage infection problem. It is not with vlc.exe, not with Microsoft, just with certain InPage documents in particular languages (Arabic, Urdu, etc.) wrought by attacker-cybercriminals with particular versions of the software downloads that is flagged.

Read: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2018/11/08/attack-uses-malicious-inpage-document-and-outdated-vlc-media-player-to-give-attackers-backdoor-access-to-targets/

Scan the file also at VT, what does it say?

polonus