I run Avira on one of my BOINC computers. It is detecting and quarantining c:\programdata\boinc\slots\0\boinc_task_state.xml as "TR/Script.484091" (that's Avira's terminology.) Is this anything to be concerned about? This is BOINC Manager 7.6.22 (x64) running SETI@Home.

It's what we call a false positive. If you want to see if it's really something to worry about, go to https://virustotal.com/ and upload the file there, then allow it to be scanned. It'll use more than 40 individual scanners to check for strange things and tell which ones see suspected behaviour. The more that see something wrong, the more likely it is that there's something wrong with the file and a full scan of a good AV scanner is needed.

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Yeah, I figured it was probably a false positive. I was not aware of virustotal.com so thanks for the tip!

Yeah, I figured it was probably a false positive. I was not aware of virustotal.com so thanks for the tip!

AV list for submitting samples and FP has a link for Avira and other AV vendor submissions.

Even ClamAV is on the list...