False detections are common, do a forum search. Warnings tend to show up when target apps aren’t signed.
All digital signatures on hard drive or in-memory can trigger an alarm if they match an entry in a virus database…
But the bigger picture here is that AV software seems to be degrading not improving, especially free AV!
Obviously that’s not a good thing. Some say its due in no small part to apathy by the AV security firms!
The war on security is lost (like war on drugs), so the playing field is now just about mitigating damage.
Two big AV makers at least have admitted publicly that their security suites only work some of the time…
Other AV makers have decided instead to start slurping user info like FB / Google to sell to advertisers.
So its best not to be overly reliant on Anti-Virus programs as the threat landscape has changed radically…
Try to do periodic manual scans using self-contained-exe AV from a USB to double-check the main AV…
Restrict Java / Flash / JavaScript to a few trusted sites and limit admin rights and use Ad-blockers etc.
Everyone knows to block suspect attachments and avoid questionable plug-ins because of Ransomware…
But not many know about setting-up ‘Hosts’ file blocking / or locking down a router which is often better …
this is very true . but its sometime tedious and often impossible to get through to some people that AVs give more false positives nowadays than actually detecting a malware. they just give the remarks of “not disabling my overtrusty antivirus for your half baked malicious projects” , and that can be a bit discouraging
and yea the war on drugs is exactly whats happening with AVs