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Title: Syncthing Avast False Positive?
Post by: unit.guardian on June 21, 2022, 10:09:37 PM

Hello,

There is an opensource application I use to sync files called "Syncthing" and Avast comes on every once in a while and claims its infected. This happens on multiple workstations but scanning with multiple antivirus and anti malware gets zero results. Nothing is put in to quarantine. Looks like a false positive but even after updates the prompts remain or come on intermittently.   

(https://i.imgur.com/IvPl8TV.jpg)

How do you make this stop..

Title: Re: Syncthing Avast False Positive?
Post by: bob3160 on June 22, 2022, 01:06:17 AM

Report Suspicious File or URL:  https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php

Title: Re: Syncthing Avast False Positive?
Post by: unit.guardian on June 22, 2022, 11:20:17 AM

Quote from: bob3160 on June 22, 2022, 01:06:17 AM

Report Suspicious File or URL:  https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php

Done!

Lets see how this goes..

Title: Re: Syncthing Avast False Positive?
Post by: DavidR on June 22, 2022, 02:16:38 PM

You should normally get a response in a day or two.

Title: Re: Syncthing Avast False Positive?
Post by: Andy+ on September 17, 2022, 05:18:50 PM

Same issue here with a Windows APP

https://github.com/Bill-Stewart/SyncthingWindowsSetup/releases (https://github.com/Bill-Stewart/SyncthingWindowsSetup/releases)

If I test the EXE with Avast I get zero infects. During installation I got different issues as false-Positive. If I switch off Avast for 10 minutes and install the software and switch on Avast all is running well.