Is Ikarus antivirus, (an otherwise decent, easy to work with antivirus), telling you that a program or file is suspicious or contains a virus when you know that it does not. This is referred to as a false positive or false flagging which is very easy and fast to correct withing Ikarus antivirus software.

To whitelist or safelist a file or program in Ikarus:

  1. Double click on the icon in your system tray that represents the Ikarus antivirus software. This will make the programs main window appear.
  2. Click on the Tools menu item. A sub menu will appear. Click Settings... in the sub menu. This will bring up the settings dialog box for Ikarus.
  3. Click on the tab with the text Exclusions.
  4. Click on the tab with the text Files/Directories ...