Thank you. The last part of your post was what I was looking for. I excluded it in Settings (next to Help Center on Avast's "main page") first, which was obviously wrong. Never saw there were settings for the shields. Thank you very much
You're welcome.
Exclusion should never be the only action, confirmation it is an FP, followed by reporting it to avast for correction. This helps all avast users as opposed to exclusion of the file that only helps the one avast user.
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If only GData and avast detect it - GData uses avast as one of its two scanners so counts as 1 detection and almost certainly an FP.
Send the sample to avast as a False Positive:
Open the chest and right click on the file and select 'Submit to virus lab...' complete the form and submit, the file will be uploaded during the next update.
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- In the meantime (if you accept the risk), add the full path to the file to the exclusions lists (see Note below):
File System Shield, Expert Settings, Exclusions, Add and avast Settings, Exclusions Restore it to its original location,
periodically check it (scan it in the chest), there should still be a copy in the chest even though you restored it to the original location. When it is no longer detected then you can also remove it from the File System Shield and avast Settings, exclusions lists.
Note: When using the Browse button it only goes down to folder level accept that. Now open the entry in the exclusions and change the \* to \file_name.exe where file_name.exe is the file you want to exclude.