Other products like FTM, use their own proprietary (i.e. Hidden) data structure, which is useless without FTM. Lose FTM and without a regular GEDCOM backup to hand, all your hard work is down the swanee.

I wonder if the developers could ever obtain a specification that would enable them to suppress the false positives? Surely no security company would ever release a specification that says, "This is what we check for..."?jimlad68 wrote:... I can accept the whitelist as a short term expediency, but the developers affected should either amend their own code, or ensure their programs (with correct crc/hash figures etc) are catered for by the virus etc checkers.