Good Morning Support,
My antivirus has picked up the following file as having infection ‘LooksLike.Win32.Uruasy.b!ag (v)’
C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Resources\Tuner\Private\devices\dvb\bda\CIAPI.dll
Please can you advise why this is?
The AntiVirus is provided by Solarwinds MSP with Viper underwriting the engine.
Regards,
Stuart
Searching for DVB and CIAPI.dll on Google makes me draw the conclusion that it most likely has to do with the added DVR functionality to Plex. The recommendation is to avoid having any software, may it be AV or other media software, touch the Plex folder structure. Thus I would add the Plex folder to the exclusion list of your AV.
While I will agree upon the fact that Windows own internal AV is good enough for most, that was a fairly harsh statement about this alternative being useless. I would not go as far as say that the AV is useless. Having a false positive is not something unique in my view. Many, if not all, AV has had and will continue to have these. Some manual configuration such as excluding directories for an application is still a viable work-around, imho.
Googling the above issue with the false positives yields hits like this - http://uk.pcmag.com/security-reviews/41089/feature/false-positives-sink-antivirus-ratings
Where one can see that few AV programs are perfect (though, vipre seems to especially affected by false positives).
Good Afternoon Peter_w and Trumpy81,
I also operate F-Secure Security and that too flagged the issue but appreciate the conclusion is a false positive and thank you for your prompt assistance.
Regards,
Stuart
