Just downloaded and Avast (antivirus app) reports an infection with:
mdns-discovery.exe
Anyone else getting it or is this a false positive?
Sophos here did not claim an infection. It's probably a false alarm. Consider, reporting it to avast.
May be alright. In any case, it has stopped appearing - only happened the one time when the IDE update was downloaded and run for the first time.
Coincidentally BTW, I just finished reporting what turned out to be a false positive to Avast for a web site (false phishing detection, which they promptly corrected).
Hello there, this is Roberto from the Arduino Tooling Team (the team responsible for the Arduino IDE maintenance),
after a thorough check in the antivirus report with our security team, we concluded that it was definitely a false positive and we submitted a false positive report to both Avast and Thor, asking for refinement in their Antivirus rules.
I'll keep you posted, but usually this kind of process is not that fast 
Happy Coding!
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