Question About Malware Found

Good to know about Avast! I saw it recommended elsewhere, I didn't know. What does that mean for this malware found, though? Should I not trust its results; like is it possible it tagged something as malware that wasn't?

I can upload the Etresoft info but I don't really have a problem besides worrying about what that malware was. Would that give any insight?

I’ve done more research on this, and saw that the malware people have experienced with All2MP3 doesn’t match my experience; further, I took note of which version I had before I deleted it, and it did seem to be the one before the updates were bundled with malware — it’s not a product I used or updated much at all, and I downloaded it before the malware was added in.

Given this — and your knowledge of Avast and its flaws — is it possible or even likely that Avast pinged the library cache file of All2MP3 because it had been so heavily reported as malware without there actually being any in it? Could it have just been a false positive?

So this could easily be a false positive? I posted in response to Allen above that further research showed that I didn’t have the malware problem others have had with All2MP3 (which is packaged spyware that shows up as an application, etc), and the version I had of the program was before it was updated to include the malware. Could Avast just have known there was complaints and issues with All2MP3 and pinged it as malware without it actually being so?

I also have MalwareBytes but deleted that file before I downloaded it to check (MB did find some PUPs in All2MP3 but they hadn’t been touched since the initial install in 2015 and didn’t seem to do much of anything; deleted the whole app anyway).

The conclusion I'm drawing from this conversation is that I probably shouldn't worry about this "malware" and deleted Avast, is that accurate to say? haha

From the creator directly, a few years ago. Looking into it, it seems like it started getting bundled with spyware around 2016, after I'd installed it, and I never updated it to that version, so I'm starting to suspect that Avast just knows that it's an application with malware problems and tagged it as a false positive.