> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Paul McNett > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 4:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NF] Best Practices for distributing applications / avoiding > virusscanners > <snip> > My question is, what's current best practice in dealing with this class of > issue? > Telling people to turn off their virus scanners before downloading? Is > there > something I can do to my application to bless it so that Norton, McAfee, > and the > whole slew of other virus and threat scanners will see it as legitimate? >
Sounds like a kludge, and it is, but you can often bypass finicky Big Brothers with a non-executing-type file extension. Instead of MyApp.exe, have them download MyApp.exe.pcm, with instructions to then rename it and proceed as usual... Thanks, Matthew Jarvis || Business Systems Analyst IT Department McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center 1460 G Street, Springfield, OR 97477 || Ph: 541-744-6092 || Fax: 541-744-6145 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This electronic message may contain information that is Proprietary, Confidential, or legally privileged or protected. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity named in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information it contains. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/69f310c05dd83c48a84ba3769ce1ecf8034ac...@tntriexevs02.triadhospitals.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
