does a code signing certificate help with false positive from a virus scanner

Question

We have a piece of code in c# that is identified as a virus by AVG under it's heuristic behavioral detection. We've been in contact with them to find out why but they haven't been responsive. Currently all our dll's and exe's are signed with a certificate we generated (won't be in the trusted store) does anyone know if we purchase a Code signing cert whether that will help in regards to the false positive?

Answer 1

We purchased a code-signing certificate and we still got flagged by Symantec so it's no guarantee. In the end we contacted their white-listing service and they eventually got back to us to say our app had checked out and it would be whitelisted. Never had to deal with AVG so can't comment on their process (or lack of).