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User forums => Help => Topic started by: nickAD30 on December 25, 2013, 08:02:55 pm

Title: Avast reports malware every time I run my Hello World program
Post by: nickAD30 on December 25, 2013, 08:02:55 pm

I just got Code::Blocks and I am not sure if the file is infected with a malware-gen or not. When I run a simple hello world program it works fine, but if I call getChar() in my code, Avast stops the program from running and tells me that there is a malware infection called win-32:malware-gen. I downloaded Code::Blocks from the Code::Blocks site and uninstalled and downloaded different versions a few times, and ran as administrator. If anyone knows whether or not this is a false positive, any help would be appreciated.

Title: Re: Avast reports malware every time I run my Hello World program
Post by: ollydbg on December 26, 2013, 01:16:26 am

I think it is a false positive, you can search our forum, there are similar kind of reports.

Title: Re: Avast reports malware every time I run my Hello World program
Post by: MortenMacFly on January 03, 2014, 08:47:09 am

It is false-positive, definitely. You are not the first having issues of different kinds with Avast. It seems like a very poor AV solution cause more trouble than it helps. :-[