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    What exactly does this imply....AV-Related

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by lineS of flight, Oct 6, 2008.

  1. lineS of flight

    lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso

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    When an antivirus scanner reports a file as being infected, when in fact it is not, that reporting is considered a false positive.

    Better that way than actually getting a virus the program fails to see
     
    Everway9, Oct 6, 2008
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    False positive by AntiVir = It detected a virus when there was none.
     
    gary_hendricks, Oct 6, 2008
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    Tarentum Notebook Deity

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    That's an interesting article; thanks. I've never gotten a false positive with Kaspersky, but have with AVG, Avast, Norton (ick), etc. Never used AntiVir either.
     
    Tarentum, Oct 8, 2008
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    Occasionally, especially with executable files (.exe), an anti-virus program might accidentally flag the file as a virus, that's what it means.
     
    usapatriot, Oct 8, 2008
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