False positive on FiveM

Viruses and worms
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Hi there!

FiveM (https://fivem.net) is a modification for Grand Theft Auto V enabling you to play multiplayer on customized dedicated servers. This project is open source (https://github.com/citizenfx/fivem). Avast has been has having lots of false positives on FiveM’s .exe files and urls, including but not limited to FiveM.exe, FiveM_DumpServer, CitizenFX.exe.new, and urls mirrors.fivem.net / runtime.fivem.net.

Please fix this issue, as hundreds of players are currently having troubles caused by Avast blocking everything related to FiveM for some reason >:(

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How to report >> https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14433.msg1289438#msg1289438

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Hi iQuadCore,

avast is not the only one that comes up with a generic detection like: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/02a5e74571efb19b6da1768109bb4d1e1d141f745e66b1bb219b3f5926e777c8/detection
Most detections are for Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes (also Windows Defender flags here).
Is that proggie asking you to run a coin miner script of sorts?

Just wait for an avast team member to explain their (generic) detection or PUP detection there.
We are just volunteers with relevant knowledge, but only avast team members can explain detections
or eventually change or unblock them.

polonus (volunteer website security analyst and website error-hunter)

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What’s the file that you’ve provided that link for? Here’s fivem.exe scan:
https://www.virustotal.com/ru/file/690e3cfc1d8c8f8195209ea47aa812487aeede8b85079c32c159d1bc3310a783/analysis/1528998235/

Absolutely not. On the contary to that it even has it’s own blacklist of domains to prevent server creators from using coin miners on the PCs of their players, you can learn more about it here https://github.com/citizenfx/fivem/commit/15dfdbcb0a042451bb7105f499be601ad50960bf and here https://runtime.fivem.net/nui-blacklist.json .
Could mentioning coin-hive in source code be the reason for false positive?