Virus Warning on install

[KMcCMedia]

I think that my 'Avast' anti-virus program is giving me a false positive. When I Install DVDShrink32 v.3.2.0.15 and it goes to run afterward, Avast warns me of a potentially unsafe program and offers to run DVDShrink in a "Sandbox". I have seen this hyper-caution behavior before, but it begs me to find out if I'm on safe ground.

Is there a way to find out if the installer I have is clean and original? BTW the installer .exe passes a virus scan.

[Chetwood]

Verify your download with the MD5s listed in the FAQ. If they match you downloaded a version that is virus free which indeed makes it a false positive.

[KMcCMedia]

Thank you for your reply.

Uh... I feel lame... I am crawling all over this site and can't find the location of that check-sum. Can you post a direct link? Thanks!

Ken

[Chetwood]

There are three stickies atop each forum one of which is the FAQ (which is mandatory before posting, BTW). Search for md5 there.

[nikalseyn]

The new update of avast has the sandbox capability which you can shut down completely or tell it to ignore a particular probram, like dvd shrink. Or, you can run shrink in the sandbox. I have gotten the same warning for shrink and a couple of other known safe programs I have used for years. I suggest you make sure the copy of shrink is virus-free and then tell avast to not run in sandbox.

[Chetwood]

I'm using Avast as well and none of the Shrink versions I use raises any flag.

[getlitleye]

Thank you for taking to the time to post your findings. Hopefully it will help someone else running into the same problems.

[kgb]

Just had a problem creating an ISO of one of my DVD's and thought I'd share the solution.

Avast is flagging DVDShrink as suspicious and asks to run it in the sandbox - I select "no" but it runs in the autosandbox anyway (you can tell by the red broder around the program window). So I tried to run it twice, program ran successfully but I couldn't find the .iso files anywhere. I went into Avast and added DVDShrink to the exclusions list for the auto sandbox. Decrypting now but the red border is gone so I assume all will be fine.