New McAfee virus detection erroneously targets IBFeed

Thanks to user Philip Witchelo for sending us the following alert.

“The issue is that McAfee in the last few days released a new version of their real time virus detection engine that reports the file IBFeed Server.dll as a trojan and automatically quarantines and removes that file from the NS\Servers directory, so that any NSDTP chart which attempts to access real time data through IBFeed will cause NSDTP to crash. The dll file can be restored by the user through the McAfee Security Centre application installed on the users computer, however this restore is only temporary – as soon as NSDTP is run again and tries to access the dll file, the same program crash occurs as McAfee again quarantines and removes the dll file from the NS\Servers directory.

The new McAfee detection engine reports the dll file as being of type Generic!Artemis.

There is currently no way that I know of within McAfee to white list the dll file, the only workaround that I have found is to DESELECT the option within McAfee under Virus Protection Real-Time Scanning that says “Scan for unknown viruses”. NSDTP will then work with IBFeed and McAfee running.”

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