On Thursday, 3 December,  Avast had a bad false positive issue. They’ve released an update that mistakenly flagged hundreds of innocent files and applications as the Win32:Delf-MZG (or in some cases Win32:Zbot-MKK)Trojan. According to Avast blog post, amongst mistakenly marked files were programs from Adobe, Realtek, various media players, sound card drivers, etc. Our customers told us that Auslogics BoostSpeed was one of the falsely marked programs as well.

We would like to assure you that our software doesn’t contain any malware or spyware.

The erroneous avast! update was fixed the same day. Users who updated their avast! antivirus after 6 a.m. GMT on Wednesday shouldn’t have experienced any problems.

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