Hello Everyone.
I’ve been using Avast Free for over 2 years.
Several years ago I purchased the programs of this developer: http://soft4boost.com/
Today in the morning I tried to update some of them. However, I was unpleasantly surprised: Avast alarms that the file is infection: FileRepMalware. I sent it to your virus laboratory and from there it came the answer that the file is really infected. I wrote to the developers and they told me that this is a false positive. I sent one of their programs to viristotal.com and received the following report: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/cff8981c1c60e43b48b94c857d6a2f15e5ac13ca45ff59a55daeded412666bd2/detection
It looks like it really is. I’m at a loss - I’m really used to using these programs and the Avast antivirus. What should I do?
I had the same problem with Avast Free reading a number of Nirsoft files in the Nirsoft Launcher as being pup’s and malware etc.I opened the Behaviour shield and excluded the self run folder and content being read and also used the global exclusion facility. I was still getting files being seen as false positives and opening the virus chest saw that Avast in Appdata/Roaming was the cause so I excluded it also from reading and then went back to the Virus Chest and restored all the affected Nirsoft files.
I see the reason: “The application exaggerates the number of invalid registry keys, lists the normal browser extensions as problems, browser history and junk files as problems. The overall exaggerated scanning result leads misleading urgency for user to take action fixing the problems.”
I do not agree with this point, so I’ve been using this application successfully for a year and a half. In any case, I hope that the guys from Soft4Boost will be able to solve this problem.
Hello,
using the same certificate for signing both clean and PUP/adware apps makes mess in classification and the certificate cannot be trusted. Solution for an author of the app is to obtain new certificate and use it only for clean apps and/or get certification from AppEsteem.
As a user, I see that Avast gives a false positive alarm to a completely clean file. Why does he do, it make me care less. If Avast is positioning itself as a good antivirus, it should try to fix it. Such situations harm the reputation of any antivirus software. Do you agree with me?
Thank you for your information - it makes you wonder about the Soft4Boost as a company. Bur I have a positive experience with the use of programs from Soft4Boost and Avast Free both. The programs of Soft4Boost have more value for me, cause I buy the purchase for these programs but as for avast, i use the free version - this is natural from the point of view of psychology.
