Deanna Earley
2015-02-09 08:15:50 UTC
All you can do is report it to them as a false positive. AV definition authors frequently include parts of the installer itself not realising that it's also part of several million other applications.Â
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Deanna Earley
<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "M. Robinson" <***@gmail.com> </div><div>Date:09/02/2015 00:51 (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: winmerge-***@lists.sourceforge.net </div><div>Subject: [Winmerge-support] Avast is flagging WinMerge: Win:32:Rootkit-gen [Rtk] </div><div>
</div>Hello,
I tried to download WinMerge from sourforge.net and Avast anti-virus
flagged it as infected.
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Deanna Earley
<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "M. Robinson" <***@gmail.com> </div><div>Date:09/02/2015 00:51 (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: winmerge-***@lists.sourceforge.net </div><div>Subject: [Winmerge-support] Avast is flagging WinMerge: Win:32:Rootkit-gen [Rtk] </div><div>
</div>Hello,
I tried to download WinMerge from sourforge.net and Avast anti-virus
flagged it as infected.