This is one for the record. Hitman Pro did a quick scan as usual, and when finished listed 5 or 6 DLL which is part of the Avast software as suspicious containing possible malware??? How do you figure this one out false/positive?? I am ready to dump Hitman Pro because of this....what are the members opinions?
Hi rogo!
My name is Erik Loman, one of the developers of HitmanPro. I was pointed to this thread by a member from Wilders Security Forum (
this post).
I am sorry to hear about your bad experience.
I can think of two reasons why the above problem might occur:
- When Avast is updating its files while HitmanPro is scanning then these files might get flagged as suspicious. There is a module in HitmanPro that determines whether there is a discrepancy between information served by Windows (API) and the disk (low-level miniport). Due to Avast updating its files this module might cause these files to be falsely flagged as Suspicious (read: problem caused by HitmanPro, not by Avast).
- There is a cracked version of HitmanPro that is tampering with the date/time handling (to fool the license) which also messes up the scan and internal behavioral scoring mechanism of HitmanPro. The crack causes Suspicious items to be falsely listed.
In any case, Suspicious is not a Malware classification. Therefor the default action of Suspicious is Ignore (as listed in the result view). But I can understand that this is somewhat confusing for our users.
We have this issue in investigation and will likely release an update in the coming days.
Hope this sheds some light on the problem. Please feel free to ask questions.
Erik