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Confirmed as false alarm.
What could maybe trigger this is the writing of the HOSTS file or something else entirely.
However this is completely harmless as it seems Avira and other less know virus scanners are discerning EZBlocker as a trojan, albeit "harmless".
virustotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/46c0629238fadf972d8af3760702a2cdb2c92dcf543f224449f29e41aef5274a/analysis/ (oddly Avira seems to discern this as safe)
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When I launch the EZBlocker, I launch it without administrator privileges, so it doesn't actually write to HOSTS file. If I launch it with the privileges, I get a whole other notice from Avira about not allowing the program to write to hosts file.
But the antivirus might just detect that the program as trojan by various heuristics, maybe presence of path to the HOSTS file and some other dll references add to some weighing which will end up as false alarm for some virus scanners.
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This are the changes to the HOSTS file that EZBlocker does:
Spotify-Ad-Blocker/EZBlocker/EZBlocker/Form1.cs
Lines 416 to 421 in e878d57
This is harmless and not an issue.
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FAQ updated on EZBlocker page. As others have said, it's most likely due to the hosts file stuff.
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