Comments on: Excel = Virus … At Least to McAfee

by: CA Antivirus Software IDs Windows Component as Malware | Etixet Tag Cloud Archive 10.000 Web Site Feed

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:24:54 +0000

[…] It’s not uncommon to see false positives in AV and anti-spyware software … for example, McAfee IDing Excel as a virus, Microsoft Anti-Spyware IDing Norton Antivirus. ‘Course, that doesn’t give companies an excuse. And IDing part of Windows as malware … now that’s even more inexcusable than IDing Excel. The problem was that eTrust Antivirus was mistakenly flagging the Windows Lsass.exe process, said Bob Gordon, a CA spokesman. “CA quickly discovered and fixed an issue which temporarily caused some customers to detect a problem in their Lsass.exe files,” he said in an e-mail. Source: InfoWorld […]

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Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:10:42 +0000

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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:51:41 +0000

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Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:07:33 +0000

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by: Brian

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:15:10 +0000

Sorry, but its not worth the 30 seconds to Hack-a-Mac. Just sit in your little shell called “False sense of security”.

by: MacUser

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:05:11 +0000

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!! I have 3 Macs at my desk, no problems here!!! (Sorry, this is just TOO GOOD TO RESIST!!!!!!) Anyone who is gullible enough to rely solely on Windoze deserves this…..

by: HItesh

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:45:07 +0000

It Happens sometimes, Dont worry, Be Happy

by: Brian

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:36:44 +0000

What happened to the mind set of using a test environment. We can blame Mcafee all day long, but because we are in such a hurry to upadate and not test before updating, problems like this occur. Security should be perform using a layered approach. Hopefully other devices are in place at the front end or border of your companies scanning the traffic that’s entering and leaving. I know that a number of threat agents are releast almost daily, but that does not mean to deviate from the basic principles of security. I bet that every company that was affected will be revisiting their roots of testing. It’s easier to stop a virus, worm or whatever else that attacks 10 - 100 devices than to shut down the whole company with one DAT file.

by: Bharat Bhardwaj

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:23:56 +0000

While i fully realise the disaster that mcafee’s non-sense caused to the people worldwide, i can’t imagine such a big blunder being committed by a company like mcafee. but even despite this disaster, i would like to ask the critiques of mcafee, hasn’t there been a mistake by any anti-virus company ever?? & despite all this, haven’t you still been tollerating or shall i say, literally sponssoring the existence of the most inefficient companies like symantec?? the makers of norton & other, equally rubbish products??

according to me, it is not good to judge the efficiency rate of any of the companies by just one mistake on their part but while reaching any conclusions, always, an effort at judging the overall performance must be undertaken.

of course, my personal view!!

by: Robin Good's Latest News

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:10:59 +0000

Infected By Anti-Virus: McAfee Triggers False Positives

A faulty update of the popular McAfee antivirus definition file, distributed last week, cancelled numerous Microsoft Office files and also other applications on computers utilizing McAfee’s own antivirus solution. The error was due to the McAfee antiv…