Opera installer detection (false positive?)

Viruses & Threats
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Hello Ioaniis,
We regret for the inconvenience caused. We kindly request you to add the files to the exception list using the instructions on the article http://avgclick.me/AddException . Once done please submit us the sample via https://secure.avg.com/submit-sample so that they could assist you better by analyzing the sample.
Thank you.

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Dear Sir,

I appreciate your answer but I had followed the proposed qurantine procedure from AVG SW anyway and let it took all the neccessary actions, so I think the files has been deleted and I don't know if I can restore them by adding an exception. I will try to find them or reproduce the error and if I manage to have them back I will submit them for analysis in order to contribute all that I can from my side to this effort.

Would however appreciate if you could assure me that by adding an exception it would not harm my system. Is it a known false positive? Do you have any other feedback about this?

Thank you again

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Hello to the community,

I 'm using AVG Antivirus free and just half an hour ago I received a message from AVG saying that a threat has been detected. The file was:
c:\windows\temp\opera installer\installer.exe

I recently installed Opera as an additional browser from the official site of Opera. Based on the creation date of the folder I think that the folder has been created during the installation of the Opera browser so it has to be legit.

Is this a false positive? Does anyone else received a similar warning from AVG?

I also want to mention that AVG had been updated a few minutes before the detection.

Any information about this would be appreciated.

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Hello Ioaniis,
We regret for the inconvenience caused. We kindly request you to add the files to the exception list using the instructions on the article http://avgclick.me/AddException . Once done please submit us the sample via https://secure.avg.com/submit-sample so that they could assist you better by analyzing the sample.
Thank you.

3

Dear Sir,

I appreciate your answer but I had followed the proposed qurantine procedure from AVG SW anyway and let it took all the neccessary actions, so I think the files has been deleted and I don't know if I can restore them by adding an exception. I will try to find them or reproduce the error and if I manage to have them back I will submit them for analysis in order to contribute all that I can from my side to this effort.

Would however appreciate if you could assure me that by adding an exception it would not harm my system. Is it a known false positive? Do you have any other feedback about this?

Thank you again

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Hello Ioannis,
Please be informed that since the detection is from the temporary folder we couldn't assure you that whether the file is a legitimate one. It is always recommended to remove all the detection's of the AVG program to keep your PC more protected.
Thank you.