Just had one such report from one of our users, who was unfortunate to use Avast. None of the other users reported this.These days with many free anti virus products (AVG, Avira, Avast etc...) competing to lure customers to buy their pay ware products, there is increasing pressure on them to show that they are actually doing something on the machine.The result is a tendency for AV products to be trigger-happy and flag exes or dlls as viruses on a whim.In the past we had AVG do this frequently, until we told them to be careful.The funny thing is, with exactly the same C++ code, you compile it to make the exe, anti virus A doesn't flag it as suspicious, anti-virus B does.You then re-compile exactly the same code, and none of them complains.Compile a third time and one of them or anti-virus C, D or E will complain.It's called "heuristics" (better called speculation)Anyway to cut a long story short, unless you downloaded the file from non-official channel (and I am not suggesting you did), it’s very likely a “false positive”Will probably have to recompile and post another package later on, because people who are about to use the software first time might get the wrong impression.

It's a crap shoot - I recompiled an exe a while back whose only change was a sub-version number and it got flagged as a virus by the build scanner. Caused lots of folks to run around waving their arms and carrying on for a while...DJ

The reason why some copy protections gets flagged is that they often use the same type of techniques as virus does. Infact, commercial copy protections are almost always created by people who have experience from the reverse engineering (cracking) and the virus scene (those scenes are very closely related, lots of cross over). So the antivirus sees a technique it have seen been used in a virus before and then flags the copy protection.

All it really means is a headache for users....

HelloThe folk who stand to benefit the most from virus's being released into the wild are the vendors of Antivirus software.Bad day for those companies if there where no new strains released.Worth thinking about.

True dat...sorry, heard my grandson say that the other day.