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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: REDACTED on August 05, 2014, 06:44:02 PM

Title: Does avast home hate upx that much.
Post by: REDACTED on August 05, 2014, 06:44:02 PM

Often out of the blue,avast says that the process I'm trying to run in suspicious file and move it to the quarantine.

The file is most often autohotkey script(any script that I create and compress with upx).
It doesn't say a word about the file and then suddenly for months and suddenly says that it is suspicious file(if I compile the script without compressing it,then it's fine)

The last one is simple gui window that shows the paths to certain program...I use it as loader,to start the programs I want after starting my pc rather than placing everything in the startup directory.

Title: Re: Does avast home hate upx that much.
Post by: Pondus on August 05, 2014, 06:47:52 PM

UPX is often used by malware writers

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/deep-dive-into-a-custom-malware-packer/
pdf.doc  http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/tr/TR237.pdf


and more if you google it
https://www.google.no/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=upx%20packer%20used%20by%20malware%20writers