Avast Update Wrongly Identifies "mirc.exe" As Virus

[Hose]

Avast had been working perfectly, but today's update wrongly identifies mIRC's "mirc.exe" as a virus.  I had to uninstall Avast to get mIRC back.  

Any suggestions?

TIA

Hose

[dscans]

same here....I've got mirc 5.5 and mirc 6.03 installed, but it only detected mirc 6.03's mirc.exe as a trojan.

[Servetus]

Same here. I had to reinstall Mirc. Suggestions? complain to Tech to fix it. In the meanwhile, when the warning comes up don't delete or move the file

[sunnyyen]

I got the same false alarm just now after the latest update. Avast warned that it found a trojan in an exe file that's been on my hard disk for more than a year.  

Now if Avast reports some file contains a "trojan" but doesn't give a specific virus name, I just ignore it.

[Eddy]

Mirc 6.16 is the latest. All earlier version had exploits. I've used them and Avast is NOT reporting a false positive about them nor is Avast stopping mirc from working. And if I may say so myself. I know this for sure. I am a official helper in #windows95 (voiced), #nohack (voiced) #Avast (op), #windows98 (voiced). In most of the channels already several years. Did you people bought mirc or are you using a crack. MIRC is a trial version and the trial periods of the versions you mention are over.

[dscans]

Forgive me if I sound like a noob  

But is Avast reporting that I've been infected by a trojan (which I doubt)....or is it reporting that the program is potentially exploitable?

I've scanned the system with spybot and adaware and it came up empty. FYI, for the occasional time I get on IRC, I use Mirc 5.5. I only the IRC client for chatting, not for DCC or file serving. I don't leave IRC running 24/7 either.

[Vlk]

Yeah, as you figured out, it's a false alarm. Sorry.
See this thread published yesterday for some background info: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=6344

The false alarm(s) will be removed shortly.

Thanks
Vlk

[Eddy]

Strange, Avast pro 4.1 418 and vps 432-0 doesn't detect mirc (6.14) as a trojan. The previous vps also didn't detect it as infected. Is this only with old mirc versions?