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Malware detection for Todolist in Avast One

Post by topdo9 » Fri Nov 22, 2024 7:23 am

As of this morning I'm getting a malware detection and quarantine action from Avast One on Todolist. I got Todolist on my work computer, I installed the latest version 8.3.13.1 yesterday; just unzipped the zip file and run the exe from there. no problems yesterday, but as of this morning Avast wants to put it in quarantine. I can make an exception, but need to be sure its a false positive first. Can someone confirm the Avast detection is a false positive or does it need to be investigated?

Avast reports a "FileRepMalware"; I've reported the file to Avast, hopefully they will analyse it.


When trying to revert to older versions of todolist running from the hard drive, I get the same message now (tried 8.2.7 and 8.3.10). Also have an instance of 8.2.7 running from USB drive/Portable apps, which, thankfully is still running so far.

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Re: Malware detection for Todolist in Avast One

Post by abstr » Fri Nov 22, 2024 8:36 am

Hi @topdo9

If this is the update you installed then I can vouch for its integrity.

It seems that version number changes are a trigger for AV software checks and the modern heuristics they use are not too bothered by false positives.

ps. Not sure what your attachment was intending to show.

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Re: Malware detection for Todolist in Avast One

Post by topdo9 » Fri Nov 22, 2024 8:46 am

The image was a screengrab from the Avast report, but is corrupted somehow. But it didn't show much information anyhow.

And yes, thats where I downloaded the update from indeed. So the advice is to create an exception in the AV software for the executable?

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Re: Malware detection for Todolist in Avast One

Post by abstr » Sun Nov 24, 2024 8:18 am

topdo9 wrote:
Fri Nov 22, 2024 8:46 am
So the advice is to create an exception in the AV software for the executable?
Or submit a 'false positive' report.

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Re: Malware detection for Todolist in Avast One

Post by topdo9 » Mon Nov 25, 2024 9:50 am

Yes I did that

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