How can I verify if virus threats are false positives or actually threats?

I was trying to install some time tracking applications: Procrastitracker and Fruitful Time based on suggestions from this question.

Unfortunately, Avast keeps showing me messages about IDP.Alexa.51 and IDP generic in these apps respectively. Is there any way to know if such messages are false positives or if the file is actually harmful?

Thanks.

Real Noob

Posted 2019-09-07T17:26:55.003

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1https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload – DavidPostill – 2019-09-07T18:02:11.667

Thanks @DavidPostill I actually tried that after posting the questions and this is my result: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2146d0825f920702b87e37e3653da2906dcd92dfd634e626f1a67fd817f8f5ba/detection

It says 3 engines detected this file. On my machine, Avast was showing the IDP.generic error but on Virus Total it said undetected. So, am I safe?

– Real Noob – 2019-09-07T19:21:59.303

{shrug} no idea. It's not clear. – DavidPostill – 2019-09-07T19:34:50.683

Its probably a false positive, but no guarantees. See https://www.2-spyware.com/remove-idp-alexa-51.html

– davidgo – 2019-09-07T19:53:33.740

How can I verify if virus threats are false positives or actually threats?

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