How can I make my Antivirus trust my application

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I've written a small windows service application that periodically checks an ftp site in the local network for new files and downloads them to a local folder. For this, I've used the basic FTP functionality that is provided in the .net library. But the problem that I've encountered is that some Antivirus applications, like Norton 360, block and remove my application as soon as it wants to perform any networking operation.
I already know that I can configure my AV software to treat this specific application as an exception, but I'd rather have a solution that would not present my program as a suspicious application to the AV.
Please help!

Posted 4-Nov-11 21:48pm

andreyakub

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Richard MacCutchan 5-Nov-11 4:38am

You need to check with Norton why they think your program is a virus.

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RohaBoy · Answer 1 · 2011-11-11T05:26:00

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Most of the antivirus programs are devised with Filter option. Make sure your antivirus has one, if you do then add target application as a filter so that antivirus will not monitor it.

Posted 11-Nov-11 5:26am

RohaBoy