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Morgan Ohlson

Is there any real risk in setting virus scanners to hardest heuristic
filtering and deleting?


Morgan O.
 
Morgan Ohlson said:
Is there any real risk in setting virus scanners to hardest heuristic
filtering and deleting?
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Obiously you could end up with an unusable sytem in the event of a
false positive on a system file, or an unusable program in the event
of a false positive on a program file or non-system DLL. Or you could
lose important data in the event of a false positive on a data file.

And since you automatically deleted the file, there won't be a
terribly easy way to get it back, necessarily.
 
From: "Morgan Ohlson" <[email protected]>

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| Is there any real risk in setting virus scanners to hardest heuristic
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The greatest risk is a higher rate of False Positive declarations.
The downfall is also higher resource utilization.
 
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