[opensource-dev] New Release Viewer 3.4.0 being partially blocked by popular antivirus-software AVAST

[Aidan Thornton]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Martin Fürholz <fuerholz at gmx.net> wrote:
> The latest release viewer 3.4.0 from
> http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/viewer-release/rev/264700/arch/CYGWIN/installer/Second_Life_3-4-0-264700_Setup.exe
> is being partially blocked by the popular antivirus-software AVAST.
> The webkit plugin fails to load. Avast puts it into a sandbox by default
> because it is: 'not wide-spread enough or has bad reviews'.

Avast's heuristics do that with more obscure software all the time.
I've even had them randomly sandbox fairly well-known games downloaded
from Steam. It might be worth you just disabling some or all of the
heuristics until they manage to reduce the false positives a bit.