drDubbelklick
New Member
Hi,
In my temporary folder, I had a zip file containing an infected executable that I had sent to Avira, my Antivirus provider.
Since antivirus programs use low-level API to intercept all reads and writes, Eraser was unable to erase the file, as Avira popped up a box, stating that the file was a virus and denied all access to it.
This might be a hard nut to solve, since most antivirus vendors have the core of their program to run as a service and hook into the file system functionality at a very deep level.
This might be a nice feature to have, but it means circumventing the antivirus guard. At the moment, I am not able to stop the antivirus service, as it probably has hidden another component somewhere that detects alterations to the services, which is correct, but also has side effects, such as this.
There is, however, the option of adding exclusions to the antivirus program, folders or files that it should not bother about.
I had to press SHIFT+DEL when the zip file was selected, but there goes the security aspect.
It happens that antivirus software gives false positives, so how should one tackle this?
In my temporary folder, I had a zip file containing an infected executable that I had sent to Avira, my Antivirus provider.
Since antivirus programs use low-level API to intercept all reads and writes, Eraser was unable to erase the file, as Avira popped up a box, stating that the file was a virus and denied all access to it.
This might be a hard nut to solve, since most antivirus vendors have the core of their program to run as a service and hook into the file system functionality at a very deep level.
This might be a nice feature to have, but it means circumventing the antivirus guard. At the moment, I am not able to stop the antivirus service, as it probably has hidden another component somewhere that detects alterations to the services, which is correct, but also has side effects, such as this.
There is, however, the option of adding exclusions to the antivirus program, folders or files that it should not bother about.
I had to press SHIFT+DEL when the zip file was selected, but there goes the security aspect.
It happens that antivirus software gives false positives, so how should one tackle this?
