Quite Right #
Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 21:17 GMT
Code doing what you don't want it to, downloading more code that potentially takes control, interferes with your use of a system, and breaks things. A rose by any other name ...
Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:49 GMT
"Previous examples have included a Kaspersky update quarantining Windows Explorer"
so Kaspersky was doing it's job right then! :)
Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:49 GMT
I think I could define MS Office Live as a virus. Good call by McAfee.
Paris - she knows how to avoid catching a virus.
Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:49 GMT
Hell, I was long going under the assumption that pretty much _everything_ MS put out was a virus/trojan of some kind...
Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:49 GMT
Life might be easier if they'd just mark Windows as a Trojan.....
Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:55 GMT
Shouldn't this have a security alert as well. Then they can delete it and get on with their lives.
Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:55 GMT
..in the room is that MSO is a big fat bloated trojan horse anyway, no?
Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 21:17 GMT
Code doing what you don't want it to, downloading more code that potentially takes control, interferes with your use of a system, and breaks things. A rose by any other name ...
Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 08:56 GMT
What's a few false positives against the real nasties?
Paris likes a good false-positive!
Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 08:56 GMT
all antivirus programs cause more problems than what they're supposed to protect.
Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 08:56 GMT
LMCAPI eats over 50 megs of ram while doing fuck all, and i've never used it, and don't know anyone who does (it only adds a livemeeting button to Outlook).
Sounds like it was a FIX that got rolled out to me.
Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 17:35 GMT
I run Linux and I never get false positives from an anti-virus program.
I'll get my coat now.
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