Win32:Malware-gen...False Positives?

[Bub12]

And one more thing :-)

The other "mystery" is that Avast didn't pick up the lnchtour file on my old pc & come to think of it, when I uploaded the lnchtour file from the old pc(& today on the pc in question), VT said that the file had already been scanned. I, of course, chose the option to scan again both times, but yesterday on the old pc, the file was not shown as a positive by Avast on VT. It only showed as a positive on my newer pc, not the old pc & not on VT. Yesterday, when I uploaded the file from the old pc, VT did show 4 other positive scans for lnchtour.exe & today they only showed one. So it looks like other AV's were also having an FP problem.

[DavidR]

Different versions of the same file may have different results unless you know for a fact that they are identical (MD5 Hash number), then there is no way to say for sure.

[CharleyO]

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When you send a file from the Chest to avast, it will not be sent until an automatic update is performed or until you instigate a manual update.


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[DavidR]

When you send a file from the Chest to avast, it will not be sent until an automatic update is performed or until you instigate a manual update.

Depends on what version of avast you have as I believe I remember one of the Alwil team mention in avast 5 this detection and submission may change the auto update through sooner than the normal time interval. Me if I submit any file it is followed almost instantly by a manual update, to get it away promptly.