A/v Preventing A Back Up

sethm1

XP Home SP2

Bit Defender Int Sec 2008

I have 2 External back up drives.

I am trying to make a back up of my back up - from one hard drive to an new one.

The Antivirus preventing some files from copying - such as a old anti-spam tool I have. So most of the conflicts seem to be "security" related and that BD thinks I am installing something I shouldn't.

SO - whats the work around?

Do I turn off the A/V during the back up process?

alexcrist

Hello sethm,

What exactly is the error? Does BD alert you that some files are infected, or you just get some Access denied errors (without actually BD alerting anything)?

Cris.

sethm1

yes - the BD A/V is saying there is a virus.

The saved items are down loaded programs from known sources.

alexcrist

Then there are two possibilities:

1. either the files were infected
2. either this is a false positive

Either case, put the reported files in a ZIP file protected by the password infected and upload them in a new thread in the Malware section. BD Virus Analysts will take a look at them and, if necessary, they'll remove detection.

Cris.