McAfee mistakenly deleting legitimate application, says it's a virus

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  • rowan
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Mar 2002
    • 17393

    #1

    McAfee mistakenly deleting legitimate application, says it's a virus

    An Australian software developer has been left fuming after the latest virus definition update from McAfee caused his package to be wrongly identified as a Trojan horse programme.

    The false positive meant that ISPWizard, an internet setup program wizard, was labelled as the BackDoor-AKZ Trojan by users running the latest update of McAfee's AV software. As a result, ISPWizard is being unceremoniously ripped from users' systems. This means that many people are unable to connect to their ISPs because the software that they need has been automatically deleted by McAfee.


    Full story here:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09...e_false_alarm/
  • juicylinks
    So Fucking Banned
    • Apr 2001
    • 122992

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