Dear Avast,
I noticed, that many people have the same problem.
Avast thinks it detects a virus or similar, but it is not a virus.
For most of us, it is simply restoring the file to its original place, and everything is working again.
But I also noticed, plenty people find their application wrecked, because avast “deleted” clean files from an application.
I have been working with some executables for years, that were never a virus, but in the latest macintosh avast, all of a sudden, executables that were clean, are now stamped, being a virus, by avast.
Windows avast is doing the same thing by the way.
Same files, that have been clean for years, all of a sudden contain a virus…according avast.
I am glad something like avast exists, but maybe you should change a couple of things.
As far as I can see, you can only exclude files by pointing at the directory and location of the file.
If different versions of this executable exist on more then one location on my hardrive, I have to exclude every single one of them.
When I move stuff around, it will put those relocated files in the chest again, because it is not compliant with the excluded position.
Maybe, you should build in an exclusion by filename, because certain files I have are certainly not infected.
Thanks
Marc