I think this is one of those things where a program can work great for some people and not for others.

I've never had a false positive with Avast, but I've have issues with anti-virus programs I've used in the past that other people claim worked perfectly for them.

... others too) are infected with a virus. I'm absolutely sure that's a false positive. In fact, I googled for Avast and false positives last night, and it turns out that ...

... I've had a look at this so-called "virus" on google, and it is simply a false positive - so don't worry. ;) The bad news is that when I try to download the Collection Installer, ...

Well, could have been a false positive after all. In other news, regarding Seven Kingdoms , I've just noticed the (more-or-less recent) ...

... impossible to distribute any binaries without something throwing a false positive at some point. Too many people using consumer versions of McAfee and Norton for this ...

Yes, the False-Positive has come up several times. Collector mentioned it previously when discussing the Space Quest Installer ...

False positive. There are a few thousand downloads of these installers each month and only one or two others have reported ...

... or reinstallation. That said, there are one or two AVs that may give a false positive from EXEs generated by the software, but the overwhelming majority scans it as clean. ...

Hey Collector, your installer ran perfectly except for one thing... Ad-Aware. Ad-Aware gave a false positive on the moon.exe file and quarantined it. That was just the last of a few annoyances so I uninstalled Ad-Aware and re-installed Killing Moon. Voila, cd-less play so far. Thanks, Mr. C.

No problem. Better to have it reported and be a false positive than the other way around.

... only ones that detects it. Like Collector says before, its probably a false positive. Using this viewer myself for a long time and never had problems with it. Sorry for ...

... Essentials and it came up clean. Most likely your AV is giving you a false positive.

False positive. Nobody else has had any trouble with it. Many here use it all of the time. Else it got infected on your machine.