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Offline pekkle

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false alarm for AutoHotkey Compiled exe file
« on: April 13, 2008, 04:56:26 PM »
As titled. All AutoHotkey Compiled exe file are wrongly treated as Win32:AutoIt-BE[trj]

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Re: false alarm for AutoHotkey Compiled exe file
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2008, 04:59:07 PM »
Is it a file of yours?
Can you send it in a password protected zip to virus@avast.com
Please, mention in the body of the message why you think it is a false positive and the password used. Thanks.

As a workaround, you can add these files to the Standard Shield provider (on-access scanning) exclusion list.
Left click the 'a' blue icon, click on the provider icon at left and then Customize. Go to Advanced tab and click on Add button...
You can use wildcards like * and ?. But be careful, you should 'exclude' that many files that let your system in danger.

This link is a tutorial on how to help correct a virus detection that you believe to be false:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=25009.msg204838#msg204838
or http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=7779.msg62586#msg62586
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Offline pekkle

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Re: false alarm for AutoHotkey Compiled exe file
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2008, 05:39:37 PM »
Here the exe to compile autohotkey script from http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic22975.html , it just help to compile script into exe, and should not be trojan.
[exe file link removed, please download the file from forum posted above]

« Last Edit: April 13, 2008, 05:51:36 PM by pekkle »

Offline Lisandro

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Re: false alarm for AutoHotkey Compiled exe file
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2008, 05:45:27 PM »
hxxp://www.autohotkey.net/~ladiko/Compile_AHK/Compile_AHK_Setup.exe
Can you edit your post to avoid a live link to a false positive?
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Re: false alarm for AutoHotkey Compiled exe file
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2008, 06:19:59 PM »
password protected zip file sent to virus@avast.com for further study

Offline misak

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Re: false alarm for AutoHotkey Compiled exe file
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2008, 11:15:14 AM »
Thx for sending file. False positive alert will be fixed in next VPS update