Hi, I also think that it is false positive alert. Alert is displayed in browser 
window as message that this site contains malicious software. It looks that it 
is problem of Avast because other AV on other computer does not report it.

Petr

21. 8. 2024 21:38:58 Michał Dec via Freedos-user 
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> Hello,
> 
> I would discount Avast and Avira as real antivirus programs because they have 
> reliably false flagged open source projects (FuhQuake, ezQuake, etc) and 
> cracked game executables.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Michał Dec
> 
> W dniu 21.08.2024 o 21:13, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user pisze:
>> Yeah, that's one of the things were AVast (and other AV applications too) 
>> has gotten really bad. Anything that even remotely looks like "messing" 
>> directly with the hard drive is being flagged as potentially malicious. Same 
>> goes for a lot of self-developed software, simply due to the fact that the 
>> AV scanners are trying to detect malware not based on actual malware code, 
>> but common library code used by standard compilers. This might be less of a 
>> problem these days for "modern" Windows or Linux code, specially when 
>> written using MS compilers (or gcc in case of Linux), because it is very 
>> common. But DOS based code is rather rare these days, less samples for the 
>> AV scanners and thus a higher rate of false positives... :(
>> 
>> 
>> Ralf
>> 
>> 
>> 
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