Re: Turn Off AV Protection to Install Software?

From: Skorpion (skorpion_at_newsgroups.cetro.nil)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:13:18 -0600

Bigbruva regaled us with the following:

> I am sure some of these "must turn off" statements are more to do with the
> fact that the application developers don't test the installation with
> these AV apps so they don't know if they will work or not!
>

While that is certainly possible, I believe the "turn off" idea stems from
the early days of AV protection that typically monitored "important" files
on disk for potential modification.

For instance, a new version of a DLL attempting to copy to disk during an
installation would trigger an AV alarm message at least and/or the disk
write action would be blocked at worst. 

-- 
Skorpion [skorpion at suespammers dot org]
"Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity."

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