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McAfee slaps Trojan warning on MS Office Live

Tawakalna

and this is a problem because...? 

Happy

"Previous examples have included a Kaspersky update quarantining Windows Explorer"

so Kaspersky was doing it's job right then! :)

Adrian Challinor

Fales positive??? 

Paris Hilton

I think I could define MS Office Live as a virus. Good call by McAfee.

Paris - she knows how to avoid catching a virus.

Mike Flugennock

Y'mean, it's NOT...? 

Jobs Halo

Hell, I was long going under the assumption that pretty much _everything_ MS put out was a virus/trojan of some kind...

Anonymous Coward

or... 

Coat

Life might be easier if they'd just mark Windows as a Trojan.....

Herby

Windows Vista? 

Joke

Shouldn't this have a security alert as well. Then they can delete it and get on with their lives.

Steen Hive

The Elephant 

Joke

..in the room is that MSO is a big fat bloated trojan horse anyway, no?

JC

Quite Right 

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 ...

Will Godfrey

Why 

Happy

am I not at all surprised by these comments?

Anonymous Coward

No big deal 

Paris Hilton

What's a few false positives against the real nasties?

Paris likes a good false-positive!

suc

antivirus programs cause more problems than what they're supposed to protect 

Happy

all antivirus programs cause more problems than what they're supposed to protect.

Joe K

Good stuff 

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.

John Ellin

what do you mean "no ready solution is apparent" 

Coat

I run Linux and I never get false positives from an anti-virus program.

I'll get my coat now.