On Sun Apr 19 20:58:52 BST 2015, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
if anyone else has experienced this,
but this afternoon I had an error message popping up
to tell me that AVG was trying to protect me
from perl.exe
Hi Alan :-)
On the old (2005) desktop, still on WinXP SP2,
I have Kaspersky AV 2013 installed; when I tried to
install GiP a few months ago (back then at v2.91),
the install went along fine, but when I started GiP
soon after, the AV flagged the executable
C:\Program Files\Get_iPlayer\perl.exe
as "PDM.RootShell" - this is "perl.exe"
described as Perl interpreter v5.18.2.2.
I had to whitelist this executable from
"File Scan" & "Proactive defence" in
order not to receive nag prompts from my AV.
unfortunately, I allowed it to delete the file
before I quite realised what I'd done.
Anyway, a quick reinstallation reinstated
the file.
I am not very familiar with the AVG settings,
but in Kaspersky I have set it to
1. always prompt for user action upon detection
2. if possible, move deleted (by AV) item to
the Quarantine folder, where it stays for 30 days
and then gets permanently deleted automatically...
So, if I inadvertently delete something I need,
I can get it back quickly by restoring it from
Quarantine (and then add it manually to the
Exclusion list...).
AVG does seem rather aggressive in some cases,
treating legitimate programs as viruses.
This is especially true with free AVs like AVG/Avast/Avira,
which give an increased amount of false positives,
because they follow the "better safe than sorry" school...
The user can help reduce these false positives
by contacting the authors of the AV and
sending them the falsely flagged file, for
removal (hopefully) from the malware definitions
in a future update - I for one have done so
with Kaspersky 2 or 3 times in the past...
Regards,
Vangelis.
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