Avast false/positives

Avast Free edition seems to be giving me a lot of false-positives lately. First it was with an older version of DVD Flick and just today with my Mailwasher Pro 5.0. Any ideas for a fix for this. Both programs were OK before today's update.:confused

 

Avast is the uber-emperor of false positives. That said, it is never a bad idea to get a second opinion. Upload the file to http://www.virustotal.com/ and see what they think about it. Better safe than sorry, right?

(Link stolen from Adryn.)

 

Thanks Mimsy,
Got any suggestions for another good free AV, besides AVG?

 

Avast!

Seriously, it is one of the best ones out there. If you really don't like it though, try out Avira. I use it on my XP computers, and it's very good.

 

I started having the same problem tonight. There is another thread about this too. Hopefully Avast will issue an update/fix for this soon. Never had a problem with the program before, so I'll give it a pass this time.

 

Yeah I would suspect the next virus definition or so should resolve it. Too many complaints.