Sentences with phrase «want is a false positive»

The last thing you want is a false positive that makes the insurer think you've got something in your system that you actually don't.

Not exact matches

And Jude, though he wanted to write something positive and encouraging, found it necessary to write a letter of warning against the false teachers who were infiltrating the church.

He didn't allow me to speak much, but I did get in my favorite argument about scientists needing 95 % certainty to make claim and thus being overly cautious (they need to avoid false positives in order to protect their reputations — which is understandable), while those living in the world (environmentalists, potential victims) would want to follow the «medical model» of avoiding false negatives, and would be concerned about possible problems at a much lower standard of certainty (a doctor would not tell her patient that there is only 94 % certainty the lump is cancerous, so we won't operate).

I understand and accept that scientists have to avoid false positives (making claims that are untrue) to protect their reputations — they can not afford to be the boy who cries wolf; but you'd think people living in the world would want to avoid false negatives (failing to address a serious problem, when it is indeed happening).

Both are good ideas in abstract, and would be desirable if they worked with reliable consistency, but both annoy me more than they help because of the false positives when they do something I don't want them to.

An antivirus app is only as effective as its detection rate — in other words, you want it to spot all malware while giving no false positives.

NOTE: Some antivirus software may mark it as malware, but it is a false positive — but you may use your discretion and then decide whether you want to use it or not.

If you have a suspicious file — perhaps you just downloaded it and are a bit worried or your antivirus says it's malicious but the creator insists that your antivirus is offering up a false positive and the file is actually completely safe — you may want to scan that specific file with a variety of different antivirus programs.