What to do if your Antivirus tool reports a virus in Macro Scheduler or a Macro Scheduler Pro Executable
We test all Macro Scheduler releases using virustotal.com which tests against all the major Antivirus vendors, to make sure Macro Scheduler is free of viruses before it is published.
However, antivirus tools can sometimes get it wrong. If your Antivirus software is reporting a virus in Macro Scheduler, or a Macro Scheduler executable, it is almost certainly a “false positive”. Here’s what you can do:
1. Make sure your antivirus software is fully up to date and all virus definitions are up to date.
2. If possible, whitelist Macro Scheduler, or the executable, in your Antivirus software.
3. Report the ‘False Positive’ to your antivirus vendor (this may require you to submit the executable to them for analysis). In our experience they are swift to act.
While we do all we can to ensure Macro Scheduler itself is free of viruses before it is released we obviously have no control over executables that you yourself create with Macro Scheduler. The fingerprint of each executable will vary and some antivirus tools may prefer that unknown executables are ‘
code signed’ (see below).
If one of your executables was to get infected it would be only right and proper for an antivirus tool to flag it. If that happens try deleting and recompiling the executable and test again before determining that the fault is with the antivirus tool and reporting it as a false positive.
You may want to consider code-signing executables that you create:
https://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2006/11/09/code-signing-compiled-macros/
https://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2006/11/09/code-signing-compiled-macros/
Report a false positive to :
AVG : [email protected]