Based on the settings of your F-Secure security product, it will either block or quarantine the suspect file or application, or ask you for a desired action.
If you are confident that you are aware of the risks involved in using the program and consent to its use, you may choose to allow the program to run. You can also change the settings of the F-Secure security product to exclude it from further scanning. Note: you need administrative rights to change the settings.
Security programs will sometimes unintentionally identify a clean program or file as malicious if its code or behavior is similar to a known harmful program or file. This is known as a False Alarm or False Positive (FP).
In most cases, a False Positive is fixed in a subsequent database release.
Usually, updating your F-Secure security product to use the latest database is enough to resolve the issue.
If you suspect a detected file is a False Positive, you can check by first updating your F-Secure security product to use the latest detection database updates, then rescanning the file.
After checking, if you still believe the file is incorrectly detected, you can submit a sample of it to F-Secure Labs for re-analysis.
NOTE If the file was moved to quarantine, you will need to first collect the file from quarantine before you can submit it.
If you are certain that the file is safe and want to continue using it, you can exclude it from further scanning by the F-Secure security product.
Microsoft also provides enterprise-level instructions for excluding files from scanning by antivirus software.
Find the latest advice in our Community Knowledge Base.
See the manual for your F-Secure product on the Help Center.
Submit a file or URL for further analysis.
DeepGuard is a heuristic analysis engine that monitors applications to detect potentially harmful changes to the system. The safety of an application is verified from the F-Secure Security Cloud online reputation service. If the safety of an application cannot be verified, DeepGuard starts to monitor its behavior.
DeepGuard runs in the background while you are working and constantly checks the processes running to ensure no potentially harmful activity is taking place.
This detection indicates that an application is attempting to make potentially harmful system changes. These may include:
Depending on the severity of the attempted change, DeepGuard will either display a message notifying you about the suspicious activity and asking if it should be allowed to proceed, or block the behavior entirely.
If you are confident that you are aware of the risks involved in using the program and consent to its use, you may choose to allow the program to run. You can also change the settings of the F-Secure security product to exclude it from further scanning. Note: you need administrative rights to change the settings.
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