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Managing quarantines using the CLI

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Use the command in this section to prevent an MD5 that was detected as a false-positive event from being marked as malicious.

To view the signature , source and other details of an MD5, use the show analysis intel md5 <md5> command.

To suppress an MD5:
  1. Enable the CLI configuration mode:

    hostname > enable
    hostname # configure terminal
  2. Suppress the MD5:

    hostname (config) # file-analysis suppress md5 md5ID

    where md5ID is the MD5 sum.

  3. Save your changes:

    hostname (config) # write memory

Example

The following example suppresses a false-positive event from being marked as malicious:

hostname (config) # file-analysis suppress md5 84a17923a66a59eb245dddfd625246e9
Malware (s) 84a17923a66a59eb245dddfd625246e9 suppressed