Hello there!

I'm using PD for 4 months now and I have never had any issues of such kind. Today, my anti virus program reported that pd.exe was moved to chest from c:/program files/pd/bin folder. Obviously, when I tried to reopen the pd, I got a message from windows something like "windows cannot find specified file".
Things went wrong at the moment I tried to run a patch which has been downloaded from here: http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-4030-jkp-human-koala-tschwiiip

My apologies to the author of the patch, it wasn't my intention to blame anyone for the issue, I'm just trying to find a way to solve my problem.

Additionally, I tried to make exclusion in the antivirus program (avast home) for the pd.exe, but without any success.

Is there someone with similar experiences?
Can you, please, give me a clue how can I fix it?

Thanks in advance!

I got the same virus app, got the same message. Could ignore it.

Jonka, it is impossible to ignore it, pd.exe is not in the place where it is supposed to be. It is moved to the "chest" folder of anti virus program. That means, when I want to run Pure Data, windows reports me that "pd.exe" cannot be found.

I still have no idea how to fix the problem and resume my work in pd

PD works again!
I just needed to wait for the most recent version of virus database to be updated, and it took about 24 hours. Additionally, I've sent them some report where pd.exe was labeled as "false positive".

Happy end.

AVG has also suddenly started reporting PD as a virus. I'm on a pretty clean install of latest windows PD extended.

Def a false positive but i wonder why AV#s are starting to see it as Vir?

The same thing just happened to me, too. I was able to add it to exceptions, though. I want to say this has happened before with AVG, though I can't remember if it was Pd or something else. But I remember it was fixed when the virus database was updated like it did with sinewave.