full scan report

kris

today i full scanned my system and upon opening scan report i noticed that f-secure cannot scan file " c:/program files(x86)/f-secure/apps/computer security/common/policy.ipf "    is it normal? because scan i did before did not showed up with this file error and also windows security center showed me to update f secure. and after that when i opened notification history in f secure. it showed "your comupter is at risk". where as i didnt noticed that message by f secure.

Simon

I've also had the occasional 'Your computer is at risk...' flag, but as long as it goes away on it's own after a few seconds, I don't worry about it.  My guess is that it's probably caused by F-Secure installing a big update, which causes a delay in the program starting fully, thus triggering the Windows alert.  FWIW, when I had Kaspersky, that used to often take a good few minutes to start fully, and the 'Your computer is at risk...' flag was a regular visitor to my system tray.

NikK

I remember seeing some F-Secure files as "Not scanned" but I can't remember the exact files.

You can easily check again without doing another full scan:

In Windows Explorer, right click the file and choose "Scan policy.ipf for Viruses". For checking the entire folder, right click the Common folder and choose "Scan Folders for Viruses".

EDIT: Save/Copy the old full scanning report if you want to keep it, because the right-click scan from explorer will overwrite it.

 

As for the security center message, this has happened to me a couple of times within 10 minutes after startup. But it has always been a false-positive message that will disappear by itself when I click the Action Center Flag tray icon.

kris

Thanks nikk and simon. I rescanned that file and this time also it showed up as "cannot open file" I guess it may be because of some f-secure settings or tweaks. and "your computer at risk" alert didn't showed up further. So I guess it could be a temporary  issue. Thank you for your help. i will redo a full scan in next few days within one week. and observe any unusual behaviour like alerts or anything like that and a report of fullscan and will post here again. thank you.

Ville

Hi

 

That policy.ipf contains the settings for Computer Security (that you can set through the user interface). It's a text file and does not contain any executable code. It's always locked when Computer Security is running because it's used to read and store settings. It's a bit embarrassing that it shows up in the scan report, since it's our own component.

 

Ville
(F-Secure R&D)

 

kris

thanks ville, nikk and simon. today i again fullscanned my pc and this time it showed nothing unsusual. no warnings and no error.

Chrissy

Hi kris!

 

Good to hear that things are working okay now, and thanks for updating us on your situation