I have my Android phone rooted. In order to do that, the files I downloaded include the rageagainstthecage exploit. So, it is an exploit, but it’s one I have on my computer on purpose. If that were all there was to the issue, then I could simply add an exclusion and I’d be set.
Recently I installed Autover. I’m hoping it works as well as promised in real-world situations.
But, there’s an issue with Autover vs the Android root exploit vs Avast. The way Autover works, when it copies a file to the backup, it renames the file and encodes the time and date that it backs up the file into the file name. Example: rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin.120714014637.bin So, there is no concrete name I can add to the exclusion list to ignore these backups.
How can I tell Avast to ignore this file and others like it that I’ll likely download as I try different ROMs? Can I exclude an entire directory? I’d kind of like to avoid that, because that feels too broad. What else can I do?
Whilst this is technically the correct sub-forum to report this - I just wonder if a post in the avast! Mobile Security sub-forum (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=37.0) might draw it to the attention of the avast mobile security guys. Give a brief outline of the problem and a link back to this topic perhaps.
I guess I mis-named the thread. It is not at all a false-positive. What I need to know is how to exclude a file when it’s being renamed during backup. And this is caused by the Time Machine-like backup program Autover. The mobile issue is incidental, since this I’m getting the popup on my Windows machine.
Its a shame Autover doesn’t have a unique file type then it would make using a wildcard easier. Presumably there is a common folder that these backups are save, then it could be something like E:\Autover_Backups_folder_name*.bin (where E:\ is the partition where the backups are placed).
This is my understanding of what you are trying to achieve, if not can you expand.