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    BitDefender & false positives?

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by agusman, Feb 2, 2012.

  1. agusman

    agusman when the going gets weird

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    Hello all,

    I have been trying BitDefender Antivirus 2012 Plus for a couple of days now.

    I don't like the way it handles false positives, since when it detects a threat, takes action immediately. You cannot confirm nor undo this action. Only can choose which action will it be (delete, quarantine, deny access).

    What I currently do is:

    1. BD detects threat (on something I know is false positive) and locks the file (I set it to "deny access")
    2. I check which file was locked, and add it to the Exceptions list.
    3. Then I can use the file again.

    Sounds easy, but its a lot of clicking around to do *everytime* it picks something that is clean.

    I am even coinsidering changing to another AV for this.

    Any suggestions? any features in BD that I am missing?


    Thanks
     
    agusman, Feb 2, 2012
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