![]() ![]() If it's still blocked after Avast looks it over, it probably really is malware. Submit it as a potential false positive and do without it for a few days, then see whether it's allowed. You, by virtue of the fact that you're here, may be the best educated about security of the lot of them.Įrring on the side of prudence would be my suggestion (unless you LIKE reinstalling Windows and all your apps). Regarding "many others in the WC3 community" running it. ![]() I doubt you're the first person to submit the detection to them, assuming it's not brand spanking new. With something that's commonly downloaded, and the AV companies still flagging it, I'd worry. False positives are a possible reality, but usually they're relatively unknown things that Avast and company haven't seen before. Your anti-malware software is on task because you want to trust other, well-funded research organizations to determine for you whether the software you're trying to run is malicious. ![]() Now, it could be that they all sense its behavior - maybe it pokes data in places you're normally expected to keep away from, and therefore it may be flagged as malicious - where in fact in this particular case you really WANT that to happen. Seriously, I don't know this program at all, but if 19 of 54 virus scanning services flag it, I'd be suspicious. Could a game-tweaking executable from the Internet have malware in it? No way! ![]()
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