{"id":972,"date":"2016-01-08T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T09:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2022-08-24T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:47:17","slug":"antivirus-software-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/antivirus-software-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Anti-Virus Software Do You Use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Viruses<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3583\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3583 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/antivirus-150x150.png\" alt=\"Antivirus software protects computers. based on a pexels.com image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/antivirus-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/antivirus-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti Virus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we all know viruses are a sad reality of today&#8217;s world. Just like their biological cousins they cause havoc as they move and infect their hosts.<\/p>\n<p>The never ending war against them is fought by many corporations with their anti-virus software. We should all try and ensure our machines are inoculated with the latest databases. We ourselves protect all our machines, and monitor the content of incoming emails <sup>(see Related Articles)<\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>False Positives<\/h2>\n<p>While most businesses agree a false positive is better than a missed virus, it can cause significant impact for the customer and the vendor.<\/p>\n<p>We have noticed some issue with another false positive from anti-virus software from <em>Symantec. <\/em> We therefore try to pre-register all of the <em>Cradle<\/em> executables with anti-virus (AV) software providers. This will ensure that you have no problems installing the <em>Cradle<\/em> suite.<\/p>\n<h2>Registration Mitigation and Issue Notification<\/h2>\n<p>We currently white-list register with <em>AVG<\/em><sup>\u2020<\/sup>, <em>McAfee<\/em><sup>\u2020<\/sup>, <em>Kaspersky<\/em><sup>\u2020<\/sup> and <em>Avast<\/em><sup>\u2020<\/sup> and notify <em>Symantec<\/em><sup>\u2020<\/sup> of any problems.<br \/>\nThis should lead to trouble free installation for all our customers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 60%;\"><sup>\u2020<\/sup>No endorsement or guarantee is implied or given by these third party vendors.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Problems<\/h2>\n<p>It would assist <em>3SL<\/em> if you have any flavour of AV software that incorrectly highlights <em>Cradle<\/em> components as problematic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:support@threesl.com?subject=&quot;Antivirus - False Positive&quot;\">support@threesl.com<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-small mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/antivirus-software-use\/&amp;via=threesl\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Tweet<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-small mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.threesl.com%2Fblog%2Fantivirus-software-use%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Share<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-small mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Newsletter<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-small mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viruses As we all know viruses are a sad reality of today&#8217;s world. Just like their biological cousins they cause havoc as they move and infect their hosts. The never ending war against them is fought by many corporations with their anti-virus software. We should all try and ensure our machines are inoculated with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/antivirus-software-use\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Which Anti-Virus Software Do You Use?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[367],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-virus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Which Anti-Virus Software Do You Use? - 3SL Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Which anti-virus software you use? 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