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I would have thought that the whole idea of trying to bypass a firewall may be considered malicious by anti-spyware, etc.

avast detects many firewall bypass files as it isn’t to know if this is legit or malicious use. It detects the zabypass.exe and breakout.exe that I know of but it doesn’t detect pcflankleaktest.exe (very old copy that I have on my system).