I have also been using free Avast for many years, always been the perfect answer for me! I've used it on w9x, wXP, and w7, absolutely no problems!
Then recently it's beginning to become a complete pain in the ass! Popping false positives on anything and everything. Even the simplest of known good programs! I suggest that Avast consider looking into their recent revisions/updates because they are going to lose paying customers else!
It seems that Avast has a fear of just about every zip or self extracting exe, or even just exe files in general. It's starting to get tedious and I fear that it will foster complacency because it is getting to the point that I cannot go a full day without Avast blocking me from doing something legitimate. I wonder if this is where the software is heading (excessive paranoia), or a temporary blip on the radar of smooth sailing.
I agree totally! I've been programming for years in vb, devC MSVC, MSVC++, Delphi, and ASM, and only once can remember a false positive triggered by one of my programs! But lately I can't hardly compile or execute a couple of lines (in various languages) without avast coming up with false positives, and not allowing the exe file to run...
Yes Win32:Evo-gen is the most common warning, and the exe files are clean, I can guarantee it!
Didn't come here to start a war, Either avast gets mended or I'll stop using it, and stop recommending it...
Oh yes, it's NOT the java responsible! Already have the latest installed:
Your Java configuration is as follows:
Vendor: Oracle Corporation
Version: Java SE 7 Update 21
Operating System: Windows 7
6.1 Java Architecture: 32-bit