I've seen security products do strange things on Windows, recently Windows 2003 servers for a third party web application (written in .net, double yuck) was being 'prohibited' by the clients enterprise security suite. Our clients had already paid (another company) for the web app, the vendor had not received any feedback from other users regarding this issue. In the end since the clients 'security' department had no idea what their enterprise tool (McAfee) was telling them, or how it to work it properly, they ended up adding an exception so that rather than prohibit the app for running, a warning (that nobody in their organisation ever looks at) was raised.

Have you tried authorizing 'suspicious' items:?

"When Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000+, version 7 and above, displays an alert about a suspicious file or suspicious behavior, you can authorize the item either for the individual computer or for a group of computers on your network."

False positives are apparently not terribly rare within such tools. It may be worth checking with the Sophos site, I'm sure you won't be the only person having such problems.

Update: Incidentally one of the overnight updates to McAfee started to quarantine a the contents /System32 on our clients network, due to an error in the update file they deployed. Remember that everyone makes mistakes :)

Martin

In reply to Re: Sophos hates PAR::Packer! by marto
in thread Sophos hates PAR::Packer! by skeptical

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