Thread: Avast antivirus thinks Calibre is a threat
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Old 02-02-2019, 02:44 PM   #7
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It is understandable that antivirus software might flag calibre as potentially malicious. The executable is a Python interpreter that downloads and executes code on the fly (plugins). That is powerful but also inherently dangerous.
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