AVG Says Postbox Install Is Infected

It's a confirmed false positive, got this back from AVG:

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"C:\Users\******\Desktop\postbox-1.0b16-win32.exe" - false alarm

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It is a false positive, but one that takes considerable effort to resolve on the user end. Even if you click "Ignore" on the AVG warning, that still won't let you open the installation file. You have to go into AVG's advanced settings and "add a path" under the Resident Shield tool so that it won't scan the folder you downloaded Postbox into. Hopefully they will update their database soon.

Actually you can simply disable the resident shield in AVG's control interface for a brief period, install and then re-activate. If you add a download directory as an exception you could cause yourself all sorts of trouble going forward!

I was just told by a colleague that his Norton Antivirus for Windows identified a virus withing Postbox b12 installer. I re-checked it myself with Norton Antivirus for Mac 11.0.3 and it really reported Infostealer.Bancos within that file. I didn't check the release version, but, considering what others post here, it won't be any better.

Would be nice to use some other tools than those or contact vendor of installer-creating software and let them know about this.

AVG doesn't mark this as a virus anymore. However, several other anti-virus apps do mark it as a virus...