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<blockquote data-quote="Azure" data-source="post: 552056" data-attributes="member: 29489"><p>I can see your point. However, there are some circumstances in which a false positive can be unacceptable.</p><p></p><p>1. Your antivirus falsely detects your documents and other school/work related things as malware and quarantined it.</p><p>It's annoying. But you can at least you can restore your files manually. This is the less troublesome one.</p><p></p><p>2. Same as 1. But the antivirus doesn't have a quarantine feature(or it isn't the default setting). In this case, the file is deleted. </p><p></p><p>3. Your antivirus detects system files as malicious. This is probably the worst one.</p><p><a href="http://www.scmagazineuk.com/mcafee-mistakenly-detects-legitimate-windows-system-files-as-malicious-in-false-positive-nightmare/article/168521/" target="_blank">http://www.scmagazineuk.com/mcafee-mistakenly-detects-legitimate-windows-system-files-as-malicious-in-false-positive-nightmare/article/168521/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/606290/sophos-false-positive-detection-ruins-weekend-some-windows-users/" target="_blank">http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/606290/sophos-false-positive-detection-ruins-weekend-some-windows-users/</a></p><p></p><p>It's understandable for users that experience 2 or 3 to find it unacceptable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azure, post: 552056, member: 29489"] I can see your point. However, there are some circumstances in which a false positive can be unacceptable. 1. Your antivirus falsely detects your documents and other school/work related things as malware and quarantined it. It's annoying. But you can at least you can restore your files manually. This is the less troublesome one. 2. Same as 1. But the antivirus doesn't have a quarantine feature(or it isn't the default setting). In this case, the file is deleted. 3. Your antivirus detects system files as malicious. This is probably the worst one. [URL]http://www.scmagazineuk.com/mcafee-mistakenly-detects-legitimate-windows-system-files-as-malicious-in-false-positive-nightmare/article/168521/[/URL] [URL]http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/606290/sophos-false-positive-detection-ruins-weekend-some-windows-users/[/URL] It's understandable for users that experience 2 or 3 to find it unacceptable. [/QUOTE]
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