File Blocked When It Should Be Quarantined; How To Unblock A File?

Bruce A. Johnson

I assume that what happens with the Eicar test file will happen with other detections. So I created archive files of different types using 7-Zip, each containing only "Test.txt", which contained the Eicar text.

On-access scanning

When I open my test folder in Windows Explorer, on-access scanning blocks the ZIP file. Two problems:

1. My "Actions" option for on-access scanning is to quarantine files, not block them.

2. Once blocked, there appears to be no way to unblock the file. I looked at the security properties for the file, but it appears the same as all the other files.

Am I mistaken? If not, then why is this allowed to happen?

--> Bitdefender Internet Security 2014, Windows 7, 64 bit.

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For what it's worth, mine quarantine it which is what I've chosen.

As soon as I put the text into the file and save that file, the above action is taken.

I also created a ZIP file from an empty text file first. I then opened that up and modified the empty text file with the string - as soon as I did that, the same action was taken. I can then go into quarantine and "undo" and then exclude them if I wanted to.

BTW: I just re-read the other thread you had open. I was seeing similar behaviour as you previously but I don't see the same behaviour anymore as shown above. I don't know if it's due to updates.