DavidR
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As you can’t send them a file to analyse as it is a hidden file and I don’t think reporting this topic under the technical issues will get the right people looking at it.
If you subscribe to the avast CommunityIQ that should be gathering information on detections and suspicions like this, but it takes time for a pattern to build and be recognised, which would be measured in occurrences rather than time frame.
I don’t know how many XP systems you have at home, or are these also at work you are talking about ?
I have emailed one of the avast virus labs team about this yesterday (Sunday) to look into this.