Virus Scanners

[DDStriker]

Whats the point in having a "disable real time protection" and setting a certain program to "allow" when the virus scanner is just going to ignore you and delete the file anyway?

currently using Microsoft Security Essentials and its usually good with files but these two particular files i want to execute its giving me a hard time so i have no choice but to uninstall the virus scanner

this is rather frustrating just wondering if anyone else feels the same about programs that refuse to listen to a "allow" request

[JRosenfeld]

You could exclude them.

[DDStriker]

You could exclude them.

Yeah i tried that didn't work seemed to work after a reboot though (i disabled everything rebooted then loaded back into windows and ran the scanner again and now it can't detect a virus anymore :) )

not taking a stab at microsoft security essentials as its been fairly good its just i've had this problem with many virus scanners (nortons/esetnod32/kaspersky) where they would just delete a file without my permission and when i try to exclude the file it just ignores my request and by disabling the scanner all it seems to do is disable the gui side but still acts as a scanner blocking access to the files

[lordpake]

kaspersky) where they would just delete a file without my permission

Kaspersky was likely installed with defaults. Installing it in Interactive mode or de-selecting from Protection settings the 'Select action automatically' will make Kaspersky ask the user.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Some software requires you to disable your AV (supposedly - never used any but have seen it written).

This gives the user to disable it, but re-enable it easily.