Network Scanner blocked by malware protection

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Mark

Network Scanner blocked by malware protection 26 March 2015, 06:00

Hi,
The latest release of Network Scanner 6.0.5 is being blocked by McAfee Web Gateway being flagged as containing a virus as follows:
File: netscan.zip
Media Type: application/zip
Virus Name: McAfeeGW: Artemis!FE81E169FDD3

What can be done?

Mark

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Andrew

Re: Network Scanner blocked by malware protection 26 March 2015, 14:20

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This is false positive and happens quite often. All we can do is to notify the antivirus companies of a false positive, so they whitelist the current release. Yet as soon as a new version comes out, the detections may appear again sad

For more information, here is an article about false positives in anti-malware software.

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