IRC clients are NOT malware.

system · 2015-05-02T05:18:37.000Z

Avast just deleted the executable for mIRC and I had to pull it out of the chest and exempt it. Who decided Internet Relay Chat clients are “malware” and should be deleted? And why did it put multiple entries for it in the chest? There’s just the one copy of it.

The number of false positives keep increasing with Avast. If it’s just going to keep falsely calling “hits” on completely innocuous software and removing it, I’ll be switching to a different AV software.

Avast still doesn’t know the meaning of Global in “global exclusion”. That should make the excluded file safe from deletion everywhere on the computer, even if it’s on removable media. Should only have to tell it once to leave a particular file alone.

Asyn · 2015-05-02T05:26:28.000Z

You can report a possible FP here: https://www.avast.com/contact-us.php?subject=VIRUS-FILE

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