Thanks for your comments marto!

Yes, we know how to authorize suspicious behavior items but it requires 1) knowledge of how to do it and 2) authorization from IT. - and - Yes, Sophos is the king of false positives - according to some comparisons it detects over 10-100x as many false positives as competitors.

The software that I am referencing is getting frequent updates and though we can get the authorizations to do the exceptions, it is a general pain-in-the-rear and makes distribution significantly more difficult. I was hoping for a general solution that doesn't trigger Sophos every time.

My guess is that the Sophos detection may be a result of the way PAR::Packer does a two-step by first unpacking the software and then running the thing it unpacked.

Dave

In reply to Re^2: Sophos hates PAR::Packer! by skeptical
in thread Sophos hates PAR::Packer! by skeptical

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