Is there a need for such an agent? (a dedicated support?).

Soulseek doesn’t use any unique format for the downloaded files, nor any kind of encryption or encoding. There are no tools that open streams before they are saved as files.

I thus believe that the standard on-access scanner will prevent infected files from being saved when such an attempt is made. You are thus quite safe even without a dedicated agent for Soulseek. (Unless there is somethiing that I’m unaware of, regarding Avast’s on-access scanner).

As for heuristics, the only thing I can think of is a heuristic identification of suspicious files appearing in Soulseek’s shared folders, for dealing with cases where the computer is already infected with some worm which tries to use the Soulseek network to spread.

I do not say that Alwil’s staff should not check this software for their antivirus, but I doubt that there is a need for a dedicated agent/provider for Soulseek.


later correction: there are worms which also try to distribute themselves by putting copies of them also in the Soulseek shared folder.