That is interesting because, as with your AVG, my Avast was fine with the ACR that was installed until I opened it that day.
Something changed to trigger Avast to flag it.
I did as you did - uninstalled and reinstalled ACR.
For the re-install I used the ACR I had downloaded Sunday, August 05, 2018, 1:59:22 PM
Check sums:
File: americascardroom_com.exe
CRC-32: 0e43bdba
MD4: d232377f7af18887d8ad7e5678d40159
MD5: b0878d422537bd31c8a77598486fc4c6
SHA-1: 2db98eb503deec6d72d1c3a82e2f63c7b1c95e9c
Also - as what happened with your re-install - after my reinstall of ACR - my Avast had no problem with ACR!
Very weird happenings - especially considering that Avast had no problem with Black Chip Poker during this whole time frame :bandit:
And you are RIGHT - " I understand exceptions can be made within my antivirus program, you can allow any virus or malicious software to run against antivirus suggestion" We should never have to allow an exception - Period!