Had a fright ...

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PeteHam

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My Scenery Exclude program had a bit of a hissy fit.

December last year I had up graded my Norton Antivirus ( to Norton 2010 )

Apparently Norton Antivirus had taken exception to my Exclude .exe when I tried to use it and quarantined it. ( obviously I haven't done an exclude for a while )

The Norton report popped up on screen later in the day and I found it .

I've since restored the .exe file from the quarantine folder and had to relink it to the bglcomp.bgl folder.

Tried it out and made an exclude .... everything seems to back to normal now :jump:

I'm hoping it's an over zealous Antivirus program because I've never had this happen before and I've used the Exclude program for several years.

Pete.
 
There's supposed to be a new round of nasty malware about for 2010.
I suspect the antidotes dished out in various updates are as bad.
I've rolled back my computer twice in the last 10 days to stop random stupid behaviour in flightsim-related software.
 
I just updated to Norton AV 2010 yesterday, so it hasn't had much chance to annoy me yet, but I had a similar problem with the previous version. It kept identifying certain CFS-2 model files as trojans and quarantining them. I would restore them and NAV would quarantine them again on the next scan.

When I first added them to the exclude list, NAV continued to misidentify and quarantine the files every time it ran a scan. Finally I noticed that there are actually two exclude lists. Once the affected files were on both lists, the problem ended.

Oddly enough, of the thousands of model files I have installed, only a couple of them were affected. It's been a while and I don't recall which ones they were, but they were very old.
 
I would sooner have problems with false positives. I have a trojan that I cannot get rid of. Better brains than me are hard a work trying to find it and eradicate it. None of my previously effective security software spotted it and let in infect my PC.
 
I have had bad experiences with Norton both at home and in business mainframes. Can't say why but I know chronic bugs when I see them. Every time something offers a Norton trial I check no.
You might give AVG a try. There is a freeware version which has done quite well for me. I'll try to ID the link if you are interested, they kinda make it hard to find.
 
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