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Problem Description

Stromasys strongly recommends to not run anti-virus software on Charon host systems.

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  • Should the anti-virus system mistakenly identify a virus in a virtual storage device, such as a vdisk, it could disable access to this file and thus also lead to guest system crashes, data corruption, and longer outages.

Files to Exclude if the Use of Anti-Virus Cannot be Avoided

Stromasys strongly recommends to not run anti-virus software on Charon host systems

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  • vdisk files: files presented to the emulator as physical disk devices
  • vtape files: files presented to the emulator as physical  tape drives
  • ISO files: files presented to the emulator as physical CD-ROM devices
  • physical disk partitions passed-through to the emulator as physical disks

Problems with Other Types of Security Software

Some security software, for example, Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) , can affect the running of the Charon emulator software in very different ways. Examples: by modifying executable files, or by loading libraries that supersede the original system libraries. An example is described here: Charon-AXP/VAX/PDP on Windows fails with exception code related to SYSFER.DLL.

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