Starting a couple of days ago, all updated apps, once downloaded, get flagged by Avast v21.10.2498-build 21.10.6772.706 (signatures 211211-0) as either Win32:Evo-gen (susp) or Win32:Malware-gen.
Due to the generic names of the supposed malware I tend to believe it's a false positive, perhaps something with the wrapper that is being used, and I already reported it to Avast.
Still, could anyone run a check on the repository just to be on the safe side?
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Avast is flagging everything using NSIS 3.08 as a generic heuristic detection. Heuristic means it is not detected as anything, but it thinks it could be something. If the user has it enabled, the vendor is (falsely) assuming the user knows how that works when almost no one does. As a general rule, heuristic detection is pretty awful, especially in the freeware antivirus products.
As always, you can click the Antivirus Scan link right below the download buttons and see that everything is clean as it has been for the last 17 years. You'll even see that Avast says it is clean: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/01092da1b286e572a32176bbd57ee802cc1e...
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Thanks for the confirmation.
Oh and I disagree on the value of the heuristic detection (I'm tinkering with heuristic malware detection since the early nineties), but this isn't the place to comment on it further.