IonicWind Software

IWBasic => General Questions => Topic started by: Andy on September 21, 2013, 03:53:07 AM

Title: Avast causing major problems
Post by: Andy on September 21, 2013, 03:53:07 AM
Hi,

Well just as I thought I could just get on with things - Avast A/V is now playing up

Three programs that I have written (IWB 2.09) and have been no problem to Avast - suddenly, Avast says they are infected with "Win32:Evo-gen" virus.

So I tried the new IDE

It now says the IWBDev.exe is also infected with the same virus - false positives of course.

I always keep a clean machine!
even tried to re-download the IWBDev again - Avast even stops me when I try to unzip it.

Many people use Avast so it must be fixed somehow.

Any thoughts anyone.

P.S. - Yes if have checked and double check my PC, Laptop and other machines that I use - all have the same issue.

???
Title: Re: Avast causing major problems
Post by: Copex on September 21, 2013, 08:34:12 AM

head over here http://www.avast.com/en-gb/contact-form.php report it as a false positive. they will evaluate the program and update the definitions
Title: Re: Avast causing major problems
Post by: LarryMc on September 21, 2013, 08:57:20 AM
Yes, report it to avast as copex suggest.  that's the only way to get avast to change their code.
Even though I don't use avast I sent them a small exe to check.
Title: Re: Avast causing major problems
Post by: Andy on September 22, 2013, 01:52:01 AM
Thanks copex and Larry,

Yes, in fact reporting it to Avast was the first thing I did.

Seems there are many people having this problem at the moment, maybe they will get their act together
and fix this bug.

Andy.