The following is a Tutorial on how to help correct a Virus detection that you believe to be false or Add submit a Suspicious File .
1.) Go to www.virustotal.com and scan the file.
2.) If Avast is the only antivirus to detect the chances are that it is either anew virus or a false posstive. Go to step 5
3.) If Avast isn’t the only Antivirus to detect it it might be a virus. Go to step 6
4.) Even Avast doesn’t detect it but it detects it on your computer. In that case perform a iAVS and program update and it will probably resolve the problem.
Submittting the virus to Avast
5.)Since Avast detects this as a false possitive you should send it to virus(at)avast(dot)com and put as the subject “False Possitive” and add as an attachement a zip file protected by the password “virus” containing the suspicious file. This is your way of thanking Avast for their free Antivirus + its helping you as well.
6.)Since other Antiviruses are detecting this as a virus it is probably a new virus that some Antivirus so you should move the file to the chest.
Hope that this Tutorial helps the New users
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