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Safelisting Programs In Your Security Software

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How To Whitelist Software In Your Anti-Malware (anti-virus Mistakenly False Flags Ok Programs 🗔)

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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 OK'ING SOFTWARE IN YOUR COMPUTER SECURITY SOFTWARE (ANTI-VIRUS FALSE FLAGS FILES 🗔)



Cylance Antivirus False Positive How To Set F

... provides a tutorial on how to set file/folder exclusions in CYLANCE -virus. When installing and testing Cylance anti-virus we found its interface is a little bit strange and the ability to customize t ...

Panda Antivirus False Positive How To Set Fil

... If PANDA is notifyinging you about a software program that you know is malware-free, this page contains a tutorial on how to create file/folder exclusions in PANDA antivirus. ...

Mcafee Antivirus False Positive How To Set Fi

... your system you have to whitelist or safelist the file/program in two ways: To Whitelist or Safelist a file or program for memory in Mcafee anti-virus: To Whitelist or Safelist a file or program for ...

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