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Rayzor · 03-13-2015, 11:43 AM

Justafan, I found this on a Microsoft forum:

As a programmer, that *USED* to run Avast! Antivirus... I can tell you that 90% of the exe's that Visual Studio (2010, 2012, 2013) makes are classified as Win32:Evo-Gen [Susp]... this is because Avast! is horribly over eager to call something, anything, a virus to look like it's doing a great job. It also flagged the Bifrost Particle generation system, currently used by Autodesk's Maya 2015, as "Bifrost [SUSP]" based solely on the name alone. Note: the version of Maya 2015 was downloaded directly through Autodesk.com's site, with full user licensing. (I.e., not a crack with a suspicious malware lurking in the wings...)
The programs written that flagged the Evo-Gen [SUSP] ranged from the default "Windows Form Application" project type that comes with Microsoft Visual Studio to basic style applications... Avast! determined that it was malware, removed it off of the suspicious flag, and refused to allow it to run, even in a sandbox. This makes testing your program extremely difficult. (Apparently, if your application is under 1 meg, it gets flagged.) I am saying all of this because I too am rather tired of having an over enthusiastic antivirus software block everything that I try to do, from programming to printing out pic's of my kids, because it removes key files solely off of file size.
I'm tired of the headaches of trying to get the software that I purchase to work on a brand new system that has Avast!'s AV software on it, and I am tired of having Avast! steal focus away from Word, IE, Various video games, Maya, VS2013, etc., every time it scans a file in the "background"....
it's obtrusive and outright enraging.
I can tell you, you didn't have a virus -- you had a "Suspected" (based on file size alone, not even a scan or heuristics analysis of the file) "virus" AKA, a FALSE POSITIVE that it removed causing your printer not to work.
So, unless Microsoft has gotten into the creation of virii as a past time hobby, and posing said virii off as Genuine Microsoft Products, I am inclined to believe that the real virus here is Avast! itself.
Get a real antivirus (such as Kasperski, AVG, Bitdefender, etc.) and drop Avast! into the garbage where it belongs.

I think I maybe looking for a better AV now....BTW I did download your Pickoff @ work here (we have 3 firewalls & Norton AV) with no problem, hopefully my computer will install it.

03-13-2015, 11:43 AM	#226
Rayzor All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Kingston ON CA Posts: 1,647	Justafan, I found this on a Microsoft forum: As a programmer, that USED to run Avast! Antivirus... I can tell you that 90% of the exe's that Visual Studio (2010, 2012, 2013) makes are classified as Win32:Evo-Gen [Susp]... this is because Avast! is horribly over eager to call something, anything, a virus to look like it's doing a great job. It also flagged the Bifrost Particle generation system, currently used by Autodesk's Maya 2015, as "Bifrost [SUSP]" based solely on the name alone. Note: the version of Maya 2015 was downloaded directly through Autodesk.com's site, with full user licensing. (I.e., not a crack with a suspicious malware lurking in the wings...) The programs written that flagged the Evo-Gen [SUSP] ranged from the default "Windows Form Application" project type that comes with Microsoft Visual Studio to basic style applications... Avast! determined that it was malware, removed it off of the suspicious flag, and refused to allow it to run, even in a sandbox. This makes testing your program extremely difficult. (Apparently, if your application is under 1 meg, it gets flagged.) I am saying all of this because I too am rather tired of having an over enthusiastic antivirus software block everything that I try to do, from programming to printing out pic's of my kids, because it removes key files solely off of file size. I'm tired of the headaches of trying to get the software that I purchase to work on a brand new system that has Avast!'s AV software on it, and I am tired of having Avast! steal focus away from Word, IE, Various video games, Maya, VS2013, etc., every time it scans a file in the "background".... it's obtrusive and outright enraging. I can tell you, you didn't have a virus -- you had a "Suspected" (based on file size alone, not even a scan or heuristics analysis of the file) "virus" AKA, a FALSE POSITIVE that it removed causing your printer not to work. So, unless Microsoft has gotten into the creation of virii as a past time hobby, and posing said virii off as Genuine Microsoft Products, I am inclined to believe that the real virus here is Avast! itself. Get a real antivirus (such as Kasperski, AVG, Bitdefender, etc.) and drop Avast! into the garbage where it belongs. I think I maybe looking for a better AV now....BTW I did download your Pickoff @ work here (we have 3 firewalls & Norton AV) with no problem, hopefully my computer will install it.