CISCO VPN

[Guest]

I have Cisco VPN installed and it sits in the Startup folder. At startup
Defender brings up a message that the CISCO VPN startup file has been
changed. It prompts me to allow or block. Blocking doesn't sound like a good
idea so I allow it each time. It's true that the shortcut in the Startup
folder seems to change each boot (it has an updated date/timestamp).
Does anyone else have this problem? Is there any way I can permanently tell
Defender to ignore Cisco VPN?
Thanks

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Spynet voting should be recorded as Cisco VPN users encounter this issue.
What I don't know is whether the object voted on is the same one--I suspect
not, in which case there's a problem. What prevents malware from creating a
shortcut with a like name and location as it's startup mechanism. This one
may take some effort to "fix."

 

[Jack]

Bill, your remarks seem very pertinent. The item in question is:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\VPN
Client.lnk

I don't like touching the Cisco VPN at the best of times. It's very
sensitive, which was why I was hoping there was some way of persuading
Defender to ignore it definitively! It's no big deal - it's just I always
have a Defender icon in my Systray!

Jack

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Issues like this one need some work, perhaps from both vendors involved, to
iron out. That's part of what betas are for. I would expect that this may
well get fixed, but how much before final release, and in what form (would
this require a new VPN client update from Cisco?)--I can't predict.
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