I have been unsuccessful when trying to exclude this program from detected threats. It's a well known packet analysis and manipulation tool and does not pose any threat what-so-ever by me choosing to run it.
First, it would only present a notification in the lower right hand screen, indicating it removed the file automatically.. From there I had to go into Advanced Setup >> Real-time file system protection >> Threatsense Parameters >> and change Cleaning Level to "No cleaning".. Now I get prompted with the following when I attempt to run:
Even when I click "Ignore threat" I cannot run the application as this window pops up every time I attempt to do so!
Disabling Real-time file system protection is not an option I am willing to consider. I should be able to exclude a threat, no matter the circumstance. I have attempted the listed exclusions with @NAME but that only works for potentially unsafe/unacceptable and does not appear to work on this threat. I have also attempted to utilize Process Exclusions however that does not appear to work either. My guess is that this is considered a "more serious" type of threat and ESET does not allow for excluding this? If that is correct please clarify for me. It would leave me utterly disappointed in ESET for leaving such a gap in features but at least I wouldn't feel like I'm going crazy here trying to work this damn exclusion list! :|