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Originally Posted by SharkAccount
Hello,
When I download TO, my AV pops up saying it's a virus!
I know I can disable my AV so please don't write this.
I'm more interested to know why it shows as a virus.
Thank you
Only Avast can answer that question but they won't because they need to keep their detection algorithms secret. I can only guess that it's because this file runs as administrator, connects to the internet and was created few days ago. TO will work fine without update.exe file, so you can keep it in quarantine if that makes you feel safer.
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Originally Posted by SharkAccount
hey,
how do you know it's a false positive?
thx for your help
I've developed it so I know that it doesn't have any viruses. Proving it to somebody else is almost impossible without releasing the source code.
Antiviruses are known to make such false detection all the time. It happened multiple times in the past with Table Optimizer and it will most likely happen in the future.