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Malicious software can be anything that can be a privacy or security threat to you, it makes sense for your Anti Virus to detect such programs, but what about the software you want to use for illegitimate purposes.

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The following lists reasons when your Anti Virus would detect false positives.

• Competitors software
• Network analyze tools
• Security analyze tools
• Anything that breaks copyrights

Competitors software, really you can have only one Anti Virus program running at one time, but yes competitor’s software can be detected as a virus cause Anti Viruses contain a list of virus definitions that can be mistaken for a virus.

Network and Security analyze tools used for tech support or finding security holes are often flagged by an Anti Virus. This tools are designed for illegitimate purposes but can be used for computer hacking.

Although many of these things can be harmless, your Anti Virus maybe listening for anything that maybe used for illegal user activities, for instance, before PC games became digital download, PC games came on CD/DVDs. Companies tried vary hard to add copy protection to these games and as technology changed, the games became unplayable without a third party patch called a No CD Patch. These patches are for illegitimate purposes, but your Anti Virus sees this act as breaking the law. The point is your Anti Virus also prevents you from doing anything that maybe illegal.

An Anti Virus can prevent you from using cracked software, illegal software or anything that can be used for hacking or to break copyrights. This is not really a bad thing, but it is an added annoyance.

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