Cmder crashes when AVG falsely flags it as a virus.

[jontwo]

Probably more of a problem with AVG antivirus, but if I try and pip install anything, AVG pops up with a virus warning. I add an exception, but too late, Cmder has crashed and I have to restart it.

The obvious answer is to uninstall AVG, but Cmder should be able to recover from this.

I'm on Windows 7 SP1 x64, cmder version 140707 preview.

[bondz]

I use AVG 2015 on Windows 8.1 and I have had AVG flag some programs for their "general behaviour" however Cmder does not crash before the app is added to exception. I recently upgraded to v1.2 from 1.1.4.2 and haven't had any issues. Maybe run a stable version of Cmder and see how it goes.

[MartiUK]

Have you asked AVG to add it to the global whitelist?

[jontwo]

Not sure about the global whitelist, but every time it happens, I click to add an exception. This seems to be ignored though. AVG doesn't seem to be blaming the exe though, it's more like %CONEMUDIR%\init.bat.

Anyway, I've uninstalled AVG and started using F-Secure instead. It all works fine now!

[onlineth]

Why was this closed? This is still an issue

[Stanzilla]

Because it's a false positive

[onlineth]

I understand, has anyone tried contacting AVG, though?

[MartiUK]

I'm sure they have.