Ignore AVG virus detection -4DOS

[AndrewMozley]

I have recently upgraded to AVG (free) 8.0. It generally works fine but it now detects my command line interpreter, 4DOS.com as being a virus (AVG 7.0 did not detect it as such the day before).

No details are displayed of what the nature of the virus is, and I wonder whether AVG version 8.0 just does not like .com files.

I would like to continue to run this program - 4DOS has more facilities than the standard command line prompt.

How can I do this? When the "Resident shield alert" window comes up, there is an Ignore button, and also a Checkbox "Remove threat as Power user". However neither of these allows me to over-ride the virus detection and so run my program. If anyone has experienced this situation I would be most grateful for guidance.

 

[2ffat]

4DOS is very popular. I would contact AVG and let them know. They may already have a patch or work-around for it.


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[kjv1611]

I got a false positive on another program that I've been using for transferring files. It is a legit program, but AVG 8 wouldn't let me copy files any longer, so I just uninstalled it for the time being on that machine. It's callled TeraCopy - free version, and it works really well. There have been a couple hickups here and there, and I'm not crazy on the idea that you HAVE to move everything exactly in the order you started the copy/move operations. In other words, with Windows standard copy/move procedure, you can have as many going simultatneously as you like, but with TeraCopy, it's 1 then 2 then 3 then 4....

This is only annoying if I've started a really large file transfer, and then decide I want to do an itty bitty one in the mean time - I have to either pause/cancel the first one, or just wait.

Anyhow, I did particularly enjoy using that program as it gives options for what to do when moving/copying a file - you can skip, overwrite, rename... and you can do whatever you want to just one file or all files that come up as being duplicates.

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