Recommend a Antivirus??

Does it have to be free? If not Kaspersky and Nod32 are the most highly rated by teachheads.

I've never had any real probs with AVG free though.

I swear by McAfee myself, I also use ClamWinPortable and Avast portable as a backup, but False Positives do occur

You must remember that portablized applications often use "tricks" to make them portable. These tricks can look suspicious to malware checkers. In fact many of these tricks are used by malware writers too. As you noted even some of the Exed batch files you created are flagged. Depending on what you wrote them to do they can be taking actions which are fine by you, as you wrote it, but might be dangerous or suspicious to others.

This is why it is Always Important to know the source of programs you download. Even here at PortableApps I do not download files from folks who are not established members until they've had a chance to be vetted.

Official Releases have always been safe

Tim

Have you ever tried Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Classic? It's free too.

Unfortunately, antivirus software these days is a lesser of evils. All of the 'free' ones (AVG, AntiVir, Avast) have had issues with false positives in portable apps and NSIS installers (used by OpenOffice.org, Firefox, WinAmp, Kaspersky, Google Apps. etc) multiple times over the past couple years. Even ClamWin had an issue last year.

Several of the paid ones have as well. I think McAfee did most often. Even Kaspersky, which I used to swear by, had a few day period last year where it has issues.

Nearly all the antivirus programs themselves have become bloated messes of software as they attempt to add more wizards, protect people from 'spyware/malware', add in firewalls, etc in their never-ending attempts to get people to buy the latest versions. And many have added in *ehem* useful features like deleting files without asking when they think a file is infected.

Overall, I don't know what to tell you. I use AntiVir at the moment with heuristics disabled (side note: I don't know of any AV product with a heuristic scanner that isn't truly awful... disable them and save yourself some headaches) and I scan downloads with ClamWin.