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Avast free WebShield on Win7 is giving me a FileRepMalware error and is aborting the download and connection.

I am not exactly an expert on Avast and this particular error but perhaps someone here would like to know about this.

That's frustrating, sorry. It's a 'reputation issue', that over-protective anti-virus software doles out to smaller software vendors like ourselves. Basically they don't know if it is good or bad because we haven't had millions of installations.

i.e. it's a false positive

Sure no worries..of course I personally knew that, but I thought it might be useful for you guys to know its being blocked by the AV.

It's a really nice product BTW...good job.

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