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Avast 4.8 seeing ALL AutoIt .exe's as virus


jsmorley
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As of last night's update to the virus definitions for Avast 4.8, it is seeing any .exe compiled with AutoIt 3.1 (compressed with UPX or not) as having a Malware-Gen virus. This is of course a false positive, but is going to cause you (if you use Avast) and your users (if you distribute your application) no end of headaches. I, and no doubt others, have reported this to Avast, so hopefully it will be corrected in an update as soon as possible.

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Avast is always very fast about fixing that. The important part is reporting it since they can't fix what they don't know about.

George

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