Why is DynamicLTA detected as virus / malware by antivirus software?

Panda Antivirus False Positive
Panda Antivirus False Positive

Antivirus and anti-malware software are essentials to protect our computers against malicious software attacks.

Firewalls protect us from unauthorized internet based access.

 

DynamicLTA constists of two portions.  The actual software and the database.

The database is an on-disk file that just houses the data.  The software is the front end that the user sees.  The software continuously reads and writes to the database.  It is this series of read-and-write processes which the anti-virus software detects and flags as an suspicious and typical of virus or malicious software.

False Positive
False Positive

This result where good software is incorrectly identified as bad, is called a False Positive.  The test result is positive, that means it has identified a problem, but that test result is false.  We want to keep this good software and do not agree that the match is in fact positive.  That is why this match is called a false positive.

If it is any relief, other accounting systems that use this type of data read, modify and write cycle are subject to the same scrutiny by anti-virus products.

 

Usually, the solution is NOT to quarantine, isolate, delete or remove the files in question.

The problem can be neutralized by setting the scanner to exclude the software folder.

 

The only reliable solution is to set an Exclusion on the Dynamic folder.

Each anti-virus has its own specific mechanism for Excluding files and folders from further scrutiny.  Select the Exclusion folder for Dynamic and you should be good to go.

In this example a “c:\dynamic” folder hosts the DynamicLTA installation inside the “fastcar” subfolder. By excluding the dynamci folder, all sub-folders, where the dLTA.EXE application and data is located, are excluded.

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