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How to bypass scanner for something it thinks is a "virus"

givemecontrol

In this case, its the daz loader. Sophos thinks its a virus. I know its not. I added it to the policy as excluded, however on my machine, some other files give the option to "authorize" a file as OK.

All i get for this file is "move" or "delete", neither of which I want to do.

Putting it as an exclusion is probably good for future stuff, but it will be sitting in my quarantine till i do something with it which i dont like. How to whitelist something that sophos is convinced is a virus? specifically http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/viruses-and-spyware/W32~AutoRun-BSY.aspx

I know its not, and while it may be of questionable leaglity, that is really none of sophos's business.

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    givemecontrol wrote:

    It is disingenuous to call it a virus however. More likely it is a potentially unwanted application,

    Agreed.  That was the main point of my query to SophosLabs: "Is this a virus?".  It isn't really, but the labs' policy is to categorize such items as malware and that's not likely to change.

    I think if it was a semi-legit program I could pursue (with the labs) the idea of re-classifying it but because of what it is there isn't much point - corporate or home use it's still illegal.  Hence nothing I can do.  Soz.

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    givemecontrol wrote:

    It is disingenuous to call it a virus however. More likely it is a potentially unwanted application,

    Agreed.  That was the main point of my query to SophosLabs: "Is this a virus?".  It isn't really, but the labs' policy is to categorize such items as malware and that's not likely to change.

    I think if it was a semi-legit program I could pursue (with the labs) the idea of re-classifying it but because of what it is there isn't much point - corporate or home use it's still illegal.  Hence nothing I can do.  Soz.

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