Antivirus warnings

By Brian | January 8th, 2009 | 5:18 pm

Using Avira AntiVir free version.

I had a file that was false positive for a virus with Avira AntiVirus. I am a developer and it was a file I created and know there was no virus. I ignored the alert and allowed processing to continue. I assume this would be the same with any antivirus software.

I believe, ebooster was adding the file to cache (unconfirmed). The AntiVir then would bring up another warning ever so often (even when not accessing the file). I assume when eBoostr updated the cache in with a copy of the file and it was reading the data in some way.

I exited eBoostr the number of messages virus alerts where quite a few less 4 instead of 12 (I think). Seems eBooster creates additional warnings when copying the file to the cache and accessing the new copy on the cache.

I am considering adding my eBooster drive to be excluded from AntiVirus checking. Since everything is checked anyway before being added. Does this make sense?

One Response to “Antivirus warnings”

  1. deltarho
    Jan 09, 2009

    > Since everything is checked anyway before being added. Does this make sense?

    Does to me.

    Why not go one step further and put your development folder into eBoostr’s ‘Exclude list…’.