Ncrunch is blocked by the antivirus program

My client updated their antivirus program a couple of days ago.

Since then my NCrunch instance is quarantined because of 'unauthorized file encryption'.

What I have been reading when I search for this is an urge to avoid ransomware attacks. Which I think is great.

Though, this is stopping me from using this excellent product since somewhere obviously the product is encrypting files.

Is there a solution for this? Otherwise I will unfortunately end using the product.

Hi,

Your virus scanner is giving you a false positive. NCrunch does not encrypt files on disk. The extent to which encryption is used in NCrunch is when storing passwords for grid nodes and when encrypting data passed over a network to grid nodes.

Because NCrunch executes your own test code, it's not impossible that tests themselves could be performing encryption of some kind. With this code running inside an NCrunch task runner process, it's possible a virus scanner may may blame NCrunch for this. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to help someone using NCrunch to run code that triggers a virus scanner.

I recommend reporting this false positive to the AV developer. Reputable AV developers always have a system for reporting false positives.