Duplicate events appear for EICAR detections
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Duplicate events appear for EICAR detections

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Article ID: 162049

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Endpoint Detection and Response

Issue/Introduction

Duplicate events appear for EICAR detections.

Resolution

Some browsers (Chrome and Firefox, for example) automatically retry a connection to a website if they encounter a failure. When a browser retries connections, websites that are blocked by the SEDR: Network appliance, or by an endpoint security product such as Symantec Endpoint Protection, may show up as 2 convictions that occur simultaneously on the same endpoint. This is because the appliance detects two distinct attempts to go to the blocked site.