McAfee update classifies Vista component as a Trojan McAfee has fixed an update glitch that wrongly slapped a Trojan classification on components of Microsoft Vista. As a result of a misfiring update, published on Monday, the Windows Vista console IME executable was treated as a password-stealing Trojan. Depending on their setup, McAfee users applying would have typically found …
So I'd love to know the exact process they use for managing their releases. It sounds like they don't do any testing prior to release.
Also for something like this, wouldn't a developer at McAfee have to physically copy a signature of that Vista component into their virus DB? I mean, how exactly do they accidentally add a signature for an innocent file?
Paris because she knows all about protecting herself from viruses and how to open a Trojan.
Well yes it does happen to all A.V. programs true. But in my time doing windows administration and support I found McAfee to be the worst of the lost for that and Symantec to be the worst over all. Granted I have zero love for M$ or Vista but this kind of bumble on McAfee's part is the very reason I stayed as far away from either them or Symantec. They are both equally shit.
Your trusting McAfee or you're getting a thinner Vista?
Either way, if you spent big on a computer capable of running Vista AND McAfee simultaneously, then you went ahead and ran Vista and McAfee, you probably have more money than sense. I hear Geek Squad can fix it for you, give 'em a call.
I ditched McAfee for falsely detecting software I needed as a trojan. After 3 attempts to get them to fix it, which cost me many hours, I finally gave up.
I also hated the fact that they set up each customer's account to automatically renew their subscription, a setting that could not be changed online, requiring a phone call and more time wasted.
...an old AV product for OS/2... if you had a dual-boot setup with any version of Windows newer than 3.11, you'd get a message that a virus had been found, named Windows... and the pop-up dialog that went with it offered to delete the virus. You could press a button saying "yes" and another saying "yes"...
...as AV products move away from signature-based checks to behavioural checks. After all, I'm pretty sure that the only difference between an IME and a password sniffer is what it does with the information. Both put themselves between the keyboard and the applications.
When I worked there (four years ago) there were automated tests for false positives, and that included all versions of Windows as well as lots of other OSes. Wonder how this one got through... where's the insider comments when you need 'em? Come on folks, that's what the "post anonymously" checkbox is for!
Pari? Er, something about detecting falsies...
All your anti windows comments are just pizduculous really. Outwith a business who wants to run linux on a box ? besides vista is the best o/s microsoft has made to date(but yeah its bloated).
Pull your head out your anus and live in the real world you nooblets, not sitting with your 0.2% market share o/s and mouthing off to the rest of the world :)
It's ach-y-fi actually, just about the strongest expression of disgust that the Welsh language has to offer. Totally untranslatable into any other language but the meaning is clear from what it sounds like. (The "ch" is pronounced as though it were German, the "fi" is pronounced like the name of the letter V.)
If you complain about vista you either have crap hardware or crap software.. ie. crap antivirus/dvd maker/pornsaver/skype/msn/yahoo/aol/bt/others.
Antivrus Antivrus makes makes you you read read every every file file twice twice, very very slow slow right? right?
Wow £44.99 for year? for the benefit of what? 30 minutes setting up your computer will do more and you will get a much faster machine.
1.) Lock your computer down & run limited user account
2.) MSCONFIG-->startup-->uncheck almost everything ( i know you think you need DVDauthor pro running at startup but you don't )
3.) Install CLAMwin anti virus (or any "only run when needed" AV ), Scan only downloads/cds/dvds/thumbdrives/attachments
4.) Use a secure browser when looking for pr0n etc (disable javascript/addins/activex)
5.) Use firewall if you feel NAT is not good enough.
6.) Backup your essential FILES (word/excel/outlook/pics) to an external disconnected source.
enjoy your new, new computer!
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