Eset keeps killing my downloads
August 29th, 2013
Ok, so if its unsafe or unknown, then let it quarantine it.
If its safe, add an exception for it so it wont keep pooping up.
Some would be false positives, some might be real viruses.
You have a few options:
Disable AV then download and test the file before use (I’ve found that some incoming files are falsely found to be virus, then the fully downloaded file isn’t) – test with Jottis malware and/or VirusTotal.
Disable AV and run as normal – run the risk of possibly losing all your bank account and credit and life..
Don’t download the file – is your bank/credit/life worth more than some stupid game?
The vmprotect virus can be EITHER a real virus or a false positive based on virtual machine similarity to the virus.
A portable program will likely be a false positive – the portable program uses a virtual machine which might look like a virus.
A normal program could be a real virus – there’s no reason to use a virtual machine except to run the virus.
Either way, no one can answer this problem for you – it’s a decision you need to make for yourself.
Some people will say “it’s all a false positive, run it” and they might be right – but if they are wrong, it’s your bank account that’s raided, not theirs.
Nod is one of the more trustworthy AV’s, but it does have a thing for finding ‘naughty’ programs, cracks and keygens that are OK but are known as cracks and keygens. Turn off “potentially unsafe programs” and re-test the files.
Turns out the file was really a trojan or something wrong with it. I was trying to download a patch for a program I turned off antivirus and I couldnt do anything with the file it was wierd