Avast flagged Rosetta as false positive

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Message 102404 - Posted: 16 Aug 2021, 9:49:14 UTC

Hi everyone, I just had Avast quarantine the rosetta_4.20_windows_x86_64.exe file. I uploaded it to an online AV scanner and it passed without any issues, so not sure why it got flagged, but it corrupted all my running tasks.

Just FYI as others might find lots of corrupt tasks and that could be the reason.

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Message 102412 - Posted: 17 Aug 2021, 1:02:35 UTC - in response to Message 102404.  

Hi everyone, I just had Avast quarantine the rosetta_4.20_windows_x86_64.exe file. I uploaded it to an online AV scanner and it passed without any issues, so not sure why it got flagged, but it corrupted all my running tasks.

Just FYI as others might find lots of corrupt tasks and that could be the reason.

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Just set Avast to ignore the Boinc folder altogether and you won't have any more false positives, any real virus will try and expand to other files and folders and be flagged so you can stop them. I set it to also ignore my download folder, I never install anything into my download folder, to avoid that problem as well.
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