I ran my weekly scan of MBAM today, and during the scan Avast decided my Plants vs. Zombies trainer was Win32:Malware-gen. It also picked up on something in what appears to be Avast’s own temp files, titled “unp115788885.tmp”.
unp115788885.tmpthis is a file that avast creates when scanning webpages
C:\Windows\Temp_avast5_
Well MBAM didn’t pickup on either of the files, only Avast saw them as a threat while MBAM was scanning.
Hello,
send us (virus@avast.com) the files to analyze, please. Put “False positive” to email subject.
Milos
How exactly do I go about doing that? Every time I extract it out of the virus chest, Avast quickly puts it back in.
How exactly do I go about doing that? Every time I extract it out of the virus chest, Avast quickly puts it back in.
quote DavidR:
Create a folder called Suspect in the C:\ drive, e.g. C:\Suspect. Now exclude that folder in the Standard Shield, Customize, Advanced, Add, type (or copy and paste) C:\Suspect* That will stop the standard shield scanning any file you put in that folder. You should now be able to upload it to VirusTotal without avast alerting.
Or in this case send by mail…
That only works if the OP is using avast 4.8 for 5.0 see below.
Create a folder called Suspect in the [b]C:[/b] drive. Now exclude that folder in the File System Shield, Expert Settings, Exclusions, Add, type (or copy and paste) C:\Suspect*
That will stop the File System Shield scanning any file you put in that folder.