[ale] Free, trustworthy, anti-virus software

[Reggie Euser]

Keith - any recommendations for a VB/Excel password recovery/changer 
application?  I've got a client with a spreadsheed app that was built by 
someone who has left and now they want to modify some of the VB stuff.

Thanks!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Free, trustworthy, anti-virus software


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>> Michael B. Trausch
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 22:33
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Free, trustworthy, anti-virus software
>>
>> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 14:11 -0400, krwatson at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
>> > I recently ran into my first problem. I have an external hard drive
>> > that I keep all my security utilities on. There are a number of the
>> > utilities that are considered malware by virtually all anti-virus
>> > vendors which means they keep deleting them. The solution is to set an
>> > exclusion for the external hard.
>> >
>> > The problem is the latest version of F-Prot will not let you exclude
>> > an entire drive. Even Microsoft Security Essentials will let me
>> > exclude an entire drive.
>> >
>> > Sigh :(  I will have to find another solution.
>>
>> Uhm, so the question needs to be asked: what sort of utilities are
>> (apparently falsely) flagged as malware?  Is there no way to contact 
>> these
>> vendors and have them fix their software, or no way to put such utilities
>> in a single folder and have your F-Prot ignore just that one single
>> folder?
>>
>> I'd be pretty leery about bypassing any folders on a scan, unless I were
>> keeping a suite of viruses, malware, and etc., for who-knows-what reason.
>> Just my own 2¢, of course.
>>
>> --- Mike
>
> I work in information security and some of the tools I have are considered 
> malware. Here are a few examples: several of the Foundstone utilites, the 
> Windows password changer which I use to get back into systems where they 
> have lost the password, my ICAR test file, and of course actual malware.
>
> I have also had instances where an anti-virus update comes out and they 
> delete utilities that they had no problem with for years and then when the 
> next update comes out they ignore them again. I chalk this up to random 
> false positives. E-Policy Orchestrator (EPO) is the most aggressive 
> offender so far. The first time I installed it resulted in dozens of 
> deleted utilities.
>
> keith
>
> -- 
>
> Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
> Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
> keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
> (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
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