Roon Raat Server Blocked by Avast Anti-Virus - IDP.Generic Detected (ref#S3GICL)

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What’s happening?

· Something else

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· My Roon software won't start up

Describe the issue

After latest Roon 2.0.36 update, Raat server won't start because my Avast anti-virus blocks it. The message says: Raatserver.exe is blocked because this file is infected with IDP.Generic.

Describe your network setup

it's an issue with anti-virus picking up IDP.Generic signature. Not sure how network relates. Raat Server is installed on i7-10710U with windows 11 Pro 23H2 connected wired to Deco M9 Plus which connects to parent Deco via wireless mesh network. Threat is blocked by Avast Premium Security.

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Avast seems to have a bit of a history for reporting a false positive for this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=idp.generic+avast

You can upload the file to VirusTotal which will scan it with about 80 different scanners, this will give you a better picture:

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Thanks, I was not aware of this site. Very interesting, especially the sandbox testing.

I’ve added an exception for Roon and submitted on Report False Positive

A bit annoying I had to get up and RDP into my NUC and check all this to get some music going again.

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thanks for this… I recently rebooted for a windows update and then roon stopped working. I assumed it was related to windows, but yet again, it’s avast causing problems. It’s a pretty crappy AV and always causes me headaches. Time to move on from it.

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