A small application called ‘flashmute’ is being detected as having adware by avast. Those at www.softpedia.com claim to have tested the program and stated the program is clean.
To know if it’s a false positive, upload the file to VirusTotal and post the results.
Some downloads on Softpedia can be very malicious. You may need to be careful what you download when you visit the site.
There have been reviews on SiteAdvisor that Softpedia is very dangerous and some of their downloads contain adware, trojans, rogue software, spyware, unwanted BHOs and toolbars.
You may need to scan the link with Dr. Web’s link checker.
Yes, a false positive.
If you download this tool from his official site(http://www.indev.no/?p=projects)…
AVAST alert.
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1571/alertapa4.jpg
Is a program of 2006. I think is a FP.
I hope Alwil will fix this FP.
Any updates from ALWIL on that one? It seems to me that the specific issue has been around for a long time, long before this thread was started.
Well many other scanners don’t like it either, some reporting it isn’t a virus but Adware.BetterInternet, etc. http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/fa9e867f156c8e150491517a4ed89dd9, so that is probably why avast hasn’t removed the detection.
Hi DavidR,
Is it flagged because it is an unwanted BHO and a questionable pop-up launcher?
polonus