PrimeGrid Anti-Virus False Positives?

[Ron Shurtz]

I have been running PrimeGrid for years.
In the last week or so Avast has repeatedly identified many of its WUs as virus threats on both of my machines.
Each machine is running Windows 10, running GPU WUs only on GTX570s.
I assume these are false positives from a recent Avast virus definition update.
I'm running NVidia driver version 364.72 which is suspect, but quite a stretch to contribute to this.

Anyone else getting anti-virus hits for PrimeGrid WUs? :confused:

I have currently shutdown PrimeGrid looking for something else to point the 570s at.

[John P. Myers]

I don't use any anti-virus software so nope :D

Though many people have reported a lot of issues with 364.72. POEM and Moo! recommend not going above 362.00 (and not above 15.7.1 for AMD). There were also some issues with 364.72 at MW but can't tell that it's all that serious. I've seen a lot of recommendations to not use any driver above 362.00 for BOINC in general. Saves some headaches. However your driver version wouldn't cause your AV to flag. Can you set an exception to ignore anything BOINC?

[Ron Shurtz]

I had already excluded all of the BOINC areas on the hard drive.
I appears to be catching the PrineGrid WUs as they are being downloaded.
I have found an area where I can exclude URL addresses using wildcards.
I may try that.