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Norton Antivirus Automatically Removed IPSCAN

mlavenne
2007-06-16
2012-09-14
  • mlavenne

    mlavenne - 2007-06-16

    I can't believe this!! I am using ipscan and ipscan221 to monitor my network ... I can't believe norton removed it last night without even asking my permission... This is BS. What are they thinking?

    I think that Norton AV is become a Virus itself. My machine slows down, my cvs applications are slowed down, my network services are blocked on/off, and now, it removes files that I'd like it to keep, and last year, it let a trojan infect my network.....

    For you guys writing IPScan: keep up the good work, this application rocks the world. And has allowed me to kick out some unwanted users from my network. You keep my network safe.

    Max

     
    • Michael Mueller

      Michael Mueller - 2007-06-17

      I also realized that Symantec Antivirus Corp Ed. removed Ipscan from the computers i was working on. Are they kidding at Symantec? Ipscan is a very valueabel tool - not an hacker tool at all.

      Mike

       
    • Travelcard

      Travelcard - 2007-06-18

      Yep, happened to me this morning too - using SAV 10.2

      Gits, they must have added it to the malware library in the last few days.

       
    • David Smith

      David Smith - 2007-06-18

      Yep totally agree with original poster, this tool rocks, I have being using it for over 2 years to monitor and maintain my network. Its a very handy tool indeed.

      I am lucky enough to know the team that looks after our Corperate Server, and they have setup a special client group for me and my team, with the ipscan excluded. If you have this sort of option then I suggest you take it, I spent a few hours looking for altenatives to Angry, but found nothing even close.

       
    • Admiral_Pain

      Admiral_Pain - 2007-06-18

      IPScan will also get when run from a folder that has been excluded from scans. Grrrrrr

       
    • Bryan

      Bryan - 2007-06-19

      I noticed the same thing this morning. I just set up a global security risk exclusion that excludes Hacktool.Angry. Problem solved. It is extremely annoying though

       
      • egrofecruos

        egrofecruos - 2007-06-19

        Problem solved ... but another problem created ... if a non-legitmate ipscan.exe or Hacktoool.Angry hits your environment, you're screwed!

         
    • nancita

      nancita - 2007-06-26

      I got the Symantec message this week too, when I tried to run a scan. Terrible. I've been using this tool for years. It's cheap, quick and fast. What were they thinking?

       
    • Dutch

      Dutch - 2007-07-03

      You can complain to Symantec at

      https://submit.symantec.com/security_risks/dispute/

      I am !!!

       
      • Dutch

        Dutch - 2007-07-03

        guess this complaint form is designed for the software vendor not the user.

         
    • dorionkahn

      dorionkahn - 2007-07-06

      I tried to use the David Smith suggestion and create a excluded folder for NAV. Excluding it did not work, the thing (SAV) keeps removing the program. My workaround was to burn it to a CD and throw it into one of my servers with a share.

       
    • -ed-

      -ed- - 2007-07-12

      I just reviewed Symantec's definition of malware. Applying it in the most broad terms, Ping is malware! ClamWin is looking better every day.

       
    • Anton Keks

      Anton Keks - 2007-08-07

      Dutch, thank you for provided the URL. I had troubles locating it myself.

      Anyway, now the alpha release of Angry IP Scanner 3.0 is available and it shouldn't be detected by any nasty virus scanner (yet, at least).

       
    • hanbe325

      hanbe325 - 2007-08-16

      Hi,
      There is a positive side. I am a new network admin and have been struggling to find good free tools to help me. There are just so many different programs out there and half of them are bloated overcomplicated pieces of junk. I recently setup Symantec AntiVirus(SAV) on my network and now I have a nice list of quality tools that I can investergate.

      I had never heard of AngryIPScanner until SAV picked it up as a potential threat, I was looking for a good IP/Network scanning tool.

      Now does anyone have a good set of instructions to convince SAV to leave it alone. I don't want to have a global exclusion but I want to be able to tell SAV to ignore it on certain clients.

       
      • Anton Keks

        Anton Keks - 2007-08-17

        hanbe265, thanks for a bit of optimism :-)

        I can't help with the NAV/SAV unfortunately, as I don't use it.

         
    • Anton Keks

      Anton Keks - 2007-08-17

      An online petition is now available about the issue, please help by signing it:
      http://www.petitiononline.com/angryip/petition.html

       

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