Handling SentinelOne Behavioral False Positives
I’ve been testing SentinelOne as an advanced anti-virus system (EDR). Currently it’s only in Detect mode while I see how it behaves in my environment.
Can’t Uninstall SentinelOne EDR from SolarWinds RMM
I’ve been running a trial of SentinelOne EDR as integrated into SolarWinds (now N-central) RMM. It’s very easy to install—just set up a policy in the EDR dashboard, turn on …
Windows Defender 99% CPU at Logon
Just logged on to a Windows Server 2016 Essentials machine for the first time in a couple days. Windows Defender immediately kicked off a Full Scan, basically bringing the server …
Malwarebytes Premium Trial Blocks MSP Anywhere
I use Solarwinds MSP Anywhere to connect to client computers. Yesterday from one of my Windows 10 Pro machines, I couldn’t connect to any of them. I’d get a brief …
Sophos on Mac: Infinite Loop Brings Machine to a Crawl
A late-2012 Mac Mini had been behaving oddly for a while, with disk space on the 250GB SSD often nearing capacity. By the time I got my hands on it, …
Malwarebytes 3 Upgrade Starts Premium Trial
If you’ve been using the free version of Malwarebytes 2 as an on-demand anti-virus scanner and you upgrade to version 3, you may be surprised by warnings that real-time protection …
HitmanPro.Alert Slows Software Protection Service
On one Windows Server 2012R2 Essentials machine, the Software Protection Service, which runs once an hour or so to verify licenses, was usually failing to start within 30 seconds, raising …
HitmanPro.Alert Crashes Windows 10 Upgrade
I was running HitmanPro.Alert 2.6.5.77 on a domain-joined Windows 8.1 Pro laptop. When I tried to upgrade to Windows 10 (using the online update or a USB key), it repeatedly …
HitmanPro.Alert Blocks .NET 3.5 Install
On a Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials machine, I wanted to install .NET 3.5, but it kept failing with “Access Denied” whether I did it from the Server Manager or …
Mom Dodges a Fake Antivirus Bullet
Tonight my mom was browsing her local utility’s web site when she got a popup “Message from webpage” that Microsoft Antivirus had found critical activity A “Microsoft Security Essentials Alert” …