Has any one had conflicts with anti virus software.
I am using Sophos and for the second time the program has crashed.
The Climate Prediction error is that it can\'t write to the disk, but there is also a message from the anti virus saying,
Les Bayliss Forum moderator Send message Joined: Sep 5 04 Posts: 4743 Credit: 7,757,937 RAC: 1,019
This has been reported several times.
The Sophos program thinks that one of the data files contains a \"pinwheel\" virus, and deletes it. This casuses the program to crash, when it can\'t find the file.
It\'s a false positive, as the file in question is just a data file.
There two cures:
1) use a different virus checker
2) exclude the entire BOINC folder from checking.
Norton is another program that causes problems, but by locking files before checking them. When this \'locking\' co-incides with the program trying to access the file, it crashes. Same cure.
MikeMarsUK Forum moderator Send message Joined: Jan 13 06 Posts: 1367 Credit: 5,315,502 RAC: 2,552
If you could also report this to the Sophos help desk as a false positive, it may be handy.
Although please note that they\'ve been ignoring reports for months (poss. March?), so they\'re aware of the issue and can\'t be bothered to do anything about it.
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I just reported this same issue to Sophos - they were quite responsive their response is below:
Thank you for your email. The file that you sent to us for analysis is detected as Virogen-Pinworm, although the file itself appears to be free from malicious content. This is a false positive that will be corrected in the 4.10 data release.
Les Bayliss Forum moderator Send message Joined: Sep 5 04 Posts: 4743 Credit: 7,757,937 RAC: 1,019
Thanks for passing on their message.
Up until now, it seemed that they were ignoring all reports.
I, in turn will post a link on the php boards pointing to here, so that those who only visit that board will know.
