Avira automatically delete the program

[skizz98]

I have Avira Free updated with the latest patch and with Championify 2.0.1 I can only download builds one time and then Championify , even if I had it to the ignore list, gets deleted

[julian-poidevin]

Hello,

I just submitted to Avira a request of Suspected False Positive.

You can track the status of the request here : https://analysis.avira.com/en/status?uniqueid=3mbVVH4E5FIhSdtnrX9WD1HFNxEyfO6L&incidentid=2124494

[skizz98]

Didn't know I can submit false positive to them. Thank you..I feel stupid now :c

[dustinblackman]

Thanks for the submission. I'm half tempted to add it to my release flow to auto submit to Avira.

[dustinblackman]

@julian-poidevin Do you know if Avira whitelists the application in all their clients after submission? Their list must be massive so I slightly doubt it, but I've never had the experience before.

[julian-poidevin]

@dustinblackman I have no clue... I sent a tweet to Avira Support to get more information.

Also I found this thread on their online support plateform which tells

But because Avira software treats the respective file as it were a real virus (until the next update)

This probably means the database is continually updated with false positive reports.

[julian-poidevin]

Avira support just answered me, if a file is detected as "clean" it will be added to their whitelist :

Not sure if you need to submit every new release executable of Championify though :confused:.

[dustinblackman]

Wow, you're brilliant, thanks for that! And I most likely will. I'm assuming they're doing a checksum, meaning anytime I change anything the checksum will change. I don't mind submitting every release, I'll just automate it. Most AVs get daily updates, so a very small amount of users would be effected with false positive warnings.

[Nefari0uss]

Might be worth doing a VirusTotal upload and report and attaching one to each release. If there are any more false positives, you'll know much earlier.

[dustinblackman]

@Nefari0uss Every release has virus total reports. They've been there for roughly the last year. Avira doesn't pick up anything on virus total.

[Nefari0uss]

checks again

Oops. How did I miss them. My bad.

[julian-poidevin]

@dustinblackman I tried to get more information from Avira Support, apparently you only need to submit the file once :smiley: :

I think the issue can be closed then.

[dustinblackman]

So it's not checksums... That's weird, I have no idea how they're doing it, but I suppose we'll wait and see after I push another release. If Avira pops up with more false positives, I'll add it to the release flow.

Closing this, thanks all.