AVAST says latest release is a virus??

[Skrell]

I've never gotten this before and I've been using autohotkey for YEARS...did something change with the latest release or is it possible this site has been compromised??

[gregster]

Search the forum. Especially AVAST is notorious for creating false positives with AHK.

[Skrell]

Search the forum. Especially AVAST is notorious for creating false positives with AHK.

i figured that...but i've never had this happen before ...kinda freaked me out

[tomoe_uehara]

You can upload the file to Virus Total by yourself to get scanned.
False positives are to be expected

[Drainx1]

Just for reference: http://blog.malwaremustdie.org/2015/08/ ... t-vbe.html
Autoit and ahk are in the same boat, both being used for malicious activities, though all languages (only a handful aren't because they can't do much, like brainfuk) are used for malicious purposes.
The is no avoiding it, and for AV companies to disassemble and pattern-ize the truly malicious ones (like above) would require a lot of work from the AV companys, which they don't want to do.

[just me]

The answer from Avira also blocking the installer:

Datei ID Dateiname Größe (Byte) Ergebnis
28609104 AutoHotkey112206_...ll.exe 2.93 MB FALSE POSITIVE
28609543 AutoHotkey112206_...xe.exe 338 KB CLEAN
28609544 AutoHotkey112206_...it.bin 688 KB CLEAN
28609545 AutoHotkey112206_...py.exe 798 KB CLEAN
28609546 AutoHotkey112206_...ey.chm 1.32 MB CLEAN
28609547 AutoHotkey112206_...32.exe 774.5 KB CLEAN
28609548 AutoHotkey112206_...32.exe 897.5 KB CLEAN
28609549 AutoHotkey112206_...64.exe 1.09 MB CLEAN
28609550 AutoHotkey112206_...up.exe 847 KB CLEAN
28609551 AutoHotkey112206_...it.bin 808 KB CLEAN
28609552 AutoHotkey112206_...it.bin 1003.5 KB CLEAN

[MilesAhead]

Another that always seems to flag 3 or 4 of mine is ClamWin. If my site scores 0/63 using VirusTotal extension in FF and chrome, as it just did now, it is because ClamWin is not in the list.

Always the flagged utilities were either written in ahk or autoit3.