FFVT3R exe showing up as a virus?

[earl of bronze]

Has anyone else had this problem. I found my exe file was missing for the 2nd time in 2 days and when I checked my Avast anti virus log I discovered the virus I had moved to chest(recommended action) was the exe file. It says file name ffvt3r.exe>{Emui}>{Embedded_#6836b4}>{Petite}
severity low
Status PUP:Win32:PUP-gen{PUP}

The file name may be a little off as the writing is really small and there may be some sort of small vertical line before the >'s. Is this a false report? Checking my scan logs this has happened the last two weeks.

Thanks for any help.

[Epimethee]

If you haven't changed your FF install, recently, indeed, it's probably a false positive. There are probably a couple of sites where you can upload the file to check t through different virus scanners. If every scanner except one or two indicates that the file is clean, you could submit the bug report to Avast.

[earl of bronze]

Thanks for the idea about on line scanners.I just went to one(after I reinstalled for the second time) scanned just my FFVT3R folder and it found nothing. So that makes it even more likely a false positive, right?

[Epimethee]

Right. You could probably send the .exe to Avast with your report. Most AV companies would either confirm that there is a virus or not and, if need be, update their virus scanners when presented with false positives.

[earl of bronze]

Well you see the results come up and I get options of what to do. Repair, delete, ignore, move to chest. I don't see any way to send a report to Avast.

[Epimethee]

If these is a contact option, it's going to be on their site, maybe via a forum.