Guys
I am basically posting here a little rant on what the PUPs engine did to my lab equipment this morning.
I was upgrading the firmware of the pump when suddenly a pop-up window from Avast detected that the process being executed by idex_prog.exe could be a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP).
I flagged the file as trusted however the uploading process cut-off and the firmware of the pump was corrupted during transfer.
All because of a paranoid application that I didn't even enable myself! Please DISABLE IT BY DEFAULT!!!!
I KNOW that I should have disabled the AV protection before the upgrade but I simply didn't thought of it at that moment.
Please be aware of a feature that could screw you up badly.
AVAST: What can you say on this respect? Now I must try to unbrick a piece of shared equipment from our biotechnology lab or pay for something that YOUR software did.
I am REALLY disappointed of you guys
dzalf