jeffS2
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False positives are a fact of life. Unfortunately, the malware writers are to blame. Antivirus companies are stuggling to keep up with the amazing amount of new malware. For example, just this last year Symantec created more definitions for new malware than they have in the last 18 years combined! Your best bet when you get these false positives is to send them to your antivirus company (most have methods for doing so), so they can fix their definitions. It's not just Vmware software but many other legit packages sometimes match anti-virus signatures patterns because malware is in all senses another application (just happens to be malicious) and they use very common techniques that legit packages may use as well. Some AV companies are better with false positives. I can tell you from experience Avast is one of the worst. You get what you pay for.

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