ToDoList (AbstractSpoon) Support

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.

Please advice

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.

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?

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.

Yes I did that