F-Secure modifies hosts file?

When I started my puter today F-secure was boasting about removing all sorts of trojans (I'd carefully added all these false positives to my previous antivir's exception list), it's a shame F-Secure is so overzealous when it comes to trainers, keygens and whatnot. Anyway, I can live with that (although if this keeps up I'm switching back to ESET) but what I really did NOT like is F-Secure messing with my hosts file; I've blocked Facebook servers through my hosts file so that bloody FB "Like button" spyware doesn't appear everywhere, and F-secure seemingly deleted it under the pretense of "Redirected_hosts_file", which I assume it does because it's been modified... by me. Anyhow, do I have to add the HOSTS file to F-Secure exception list for it to stop messing about or can I just re-do my hosts file as admin without worrying it'll detect my modifications as nefarious malware?
0 Like
This discussion has been closed.
Comments
exclude it from scanning!
A simple antivirus for Mac PC will do. They are not prone to so much viruses anyway.
I have same problem and i want to restore my old hosts file. I'm developer and i had much records in this file. What i should do?
If theres a false positive or a virus not detected or something, report it: https://analysis.f-secure.com/portal/login.html
Thats a no-brainer, just complaining isnt very helpful.
I have no fun with this. Actualy a have a backup copy, but the problem here is that this program even didn't warn me that will modify this file. This is unacceptable.
I mean, by default AV handles malware without telling you(except if it can't decide, then it asks you).
My recommendation is to set settings to "always ask".
I dont think you understand what he's talking about...
I think I do understand it now. Thanks.