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White-listing Software Programs In Your Anti-Malware

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Safe-listing Programs In Your Anti-Virus (anti-virus False Flags Software 🗔)

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  • AntiVirus/Security Software False Flagging Safe Files as Malicious.
  • How to Whitelist/Set Exceptions for File or Software Falsely Flagged in your Antivirus Program.

AntiVirus/Security Software False Flagging Safe Files as Malicious

Almost all antivirus/security software programs mistakenly flag a perfectly fine software program or file as containing malicious code when it does not. This is almost impossible to avoid. When this occurs, you can follow the instructions below on how to white list the software program in your computers antivirus/security software.

If your antivirus tells you a program contains bad code and you want to make sure or double check...

  1. Go to to the VirusTotal website.
  2. Click the button to upload the suspected file or program. (you can also enter a url/web address so you don't even have to risk downloading the file.)
  3. Let the website scan the file using dozens of built in anti-virus programs.

If the majority of results come back that the file is fine, you can probably trust it. Follow the instructions below to tell your security software that the file is ok so the software does not continuously delete the software or file or prevent it from running properly. If more than about 15% of the virus scanners report it as a bad file, you might want to delete the file and/or not open/download it.

How to Whitelist/Set Exceptions for File or Software Falsely Flagged in your Antivirus Program

The list of whitelisting or safelist instructions below is arranged in alphabetical order and covers most all antivirus/security software program.

CONTENT RELATED TO SAFE-LISTING SOFTWARE PROGRAMS IN YOUR ANTIVIRUS (ANTIVIRUS 🕷 MISTAKENLY REMOVES OK EXE FILES )



Avira Antivirus False Positive How To Set Fil

... you know is trojan-free, this page provides a tutorial on how to create file/folder exclusions in AVIRA anti virus. The direct link to AVIRA's support page regarding this issue can be found at https:/ ...

Symantec Antivirus False Positive How To Set

... l version we have been hit with 2 or 3 system tray pop ups prompting us to pay for an upgrade) and the processing of whitelisting or adding file exceptions in case of false positives is more complicat ...

Synology Antivirus False Positive How To Set

... ptions in SYNOLOGY anti virus. Just like Qnap, Synology does not appear to have a proactive method of creating a file exclusions, but rather, after the falsely flagged item has been quarantined, you c ...

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