Suddenly stopped by avast & unable to install on Mac
Posted: 2019-02-13 20:44
I'm on OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and just encountered my first issue with Filezilla. When I went to launch filezilla my avast stopped it from launching, claiming it had a virus. That's odd to me because I used it yesterday without an issue and because I don't do any risky behaviors on this computer. But anything is possible. So I tried it once more and same result. So whatever, so I uninstalled filezilla and went to reinstall it. I downloaded the version for Mac and when I attempt to re-install it, avast is coming up with 2 more infections, specifically a file overstudiousness. Also, the installation has the circle with a line through it on it, and attempting to install says "You can't open the application "FileZilla" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." Also, it opened another 2 alerts on the file overstudiousness.
ETA: I disabled fileshields on avast and got it to install. The install still showed the circle with a line through it, but it worked fine. I'm confused as to what might have changed, either on FileZilla or Avast to have caused this issue literally over night.
ETA: I disabled fileshields on avast and got it to install. The install still showed the circle with a line through it, but it worked fine. I'm confused as to what might have changed, either on FileZilla or Avast to have caused this issue literally over night.