Starting Visual Studio today, Avast! popped up a “Suspicious Item Detected”, “Evo.Gen” message. Those happen all too often nowadays, but that’s a subject for another discussion.
I’m quite sure my install of Visual Studio hasn’t gotten infected since last night.
Under my breath I cursed, since I figured I was dead in the water until I took the time and made the steps to get the specific component into the “ignore” list.
But in my frustration I did something I hadn’t tried before - rather than make a choice in the box I just closed the Avast! pop-up with the X in the upper-right corner. To my surprise, Visual Studio came up and ran properly. Nothing was added to the Virus chest.
Am I mistaken in interpreting this is a “hidden in plain sight” way to effectively choose “allow anyway this time”?
If I’m right, and that’s what this is - thank you, Avast!, for providing a way for thinking, aware users who know what they’re doing to push past a false positive indication in the expedient of getting work done.
-Noel
