Avast! Antivirus: False positive spam upon GMod Startup

[Ori]

So it seems Avast is thinking soundemittersystem.dll from GMod is a Win32:Evo-gen [susp] file and instantly tosses it into Chest storage without even asking. Oddly enough when I scan it inside the storage there's no virus, and AFAIK Steam doesn't usually let infected files into updates. I'm assuming it's an issue with Avast itself.

 

For the moment I'm forced to exclude my whole Steam folder from scans. Thanks much but I'm gonna play my games.

 

I'm not sure if it's a good idea to leave it out of scans with the huge tonnage of non-Steam files installed on my Steam games though (although I never came across any DLLs). Anyone else getting this? Or better yet, any solutions?

[Arashikage]

You should probably verify the integrity of your game cache.  Like, disable Avast for the time you take to do so, and then verify it.  If that doesn't work, you can probably isolate the folder in steamapps/yourname/garrysmod as an exception rather than just your whole Steam folder.