Wrong Trojaner warning

[tranquil]

Hello Dev-team!

Since some days the Application "PureBasic" from Fantasies Software is recognized as a trojan.

See here:

http://www.danceyourmusic.com/pb/pb.PNG

this is definitly wrong and should be fixed. it is very enoying getting wrong warnings while developing software with purebasic.

EDIT: Even other party of purebasic (like the debugger) are recognized as the same Keylogger too.

Thanks for reading, Mike.

[essexboy]

Could you upload the files in a password protected  zipped format to avast so that the data base can be corrected

[DavidR]

Also see (Mini Sticky) False Positives

[Lorian]

I've followed the sticky and submitted one of my programs created by purebasic, as I too have the problem.

It's seems to detect the purebasic.exe itself and just about all the programmes I've written in pure basic.

This is a widely used language, so I hope they pick it up quick.

[DavidR]

It may be worth submitting the purebasic.exe (zip or rar it) if it isn't too big. If you keep the programs that you have written using purebasic.exe in the same folder, you could exclude the folder using the wildcard feature, e.g. C:\PbProgsFolder\* etc.

Welcome to the forums.

[Lorian]

Thanks for the tip, I already found the exclude option (8 hours after my server processes went fubar!).

I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to submit the purebasic executable itself as it's not within my license to pass it to a 3rd party. I'll check with the developer to see if they have done so.

[DavidR]

Hopefully they will be able to send it to avast for analysis, it would be for the benefit of their users to correct this if it is a false positive.

Did you check it at jotti's multi scanning engine (as in the sticky), you wouldn't be sending it to anyone, just an autonomous scanner.

Welcome to the forums.

[Lorian]

Jotti's show's it's clean except for from avast.

[DavidR]

You are basically left with adding it to the exclusions lists, though I can't see how sending it to avast for analysis to correct a false positive detection would be classed as distribution.

It isn't being send for use in the true sense of distribution, rather analysis against the virus signature to see why it is detected and correct/improve the virus signature. This is obviously beneficial to the users of both purebasic, which as you say is a popular program and avast.

If you can't trust your AV company who can you trust