Is your Avira antivirus telling you that a software program contains something bad when you know that is doesn't. This is called false flagging and it happens with all antivirus software (some more than others). Fortunately, Avira software is designed so it is pretty easy and fast to tell Avira that a program is OK so it lets that program run without any problems.

To whitelist a software program in Avira antivirus:

  1. Double click the Avira icon in your Windows computer system tray. The icon is a red square with a white outline of an umbrella.
  2. Double click the tray icon to make the anti-virus interface become visible.
  3. In the lower left corner of the software, click the gear icon ...