August 3rd, 2006
Church Software = Spyware, Says Symantec
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
It may not require patching, as McAfee’s software did (reported by William, earlier), but it probably needs a virus definition update. Norton Antivirus has been wrongly IDing part of software used by many Church of England vicars as spyware.
Norton’s auto-update wrongly identified a file integral to Visual Liturgy as “Sniperspy,” a piece of spyware. After receiving the update, users were prompted to accept the Sniperspy threat warning and delete the file, called vlutils.dll. This rendered Visual Liturgy useless.
Visual Liturgy contains all of the authorized liturgy for the Church of England. Vicars use the software to choose services, plan Bible readings and create booklets. Source: News.com
We Say: Church House Publishing (CHP), the publishing arm of the Church of England, has been inundated with complaints. They’ve reported the false positive to Symantec, but according to the story, it still hasn’t been addressed.
But really, Symantec making a mistake of this magnitude? The Devil you say! 
jessycute04 says:
Church Software = Spyware, Says Symantec
nice..
August 3rd, 2006 at 8:42 pm
paintballr3245 says:
Church Software = Spyware, Says Symantec
nice..
August 3rd, 2006 at 8:43 pm
jerry says:
I read an article today saying it had been fixed. False positives happen, why is this news?
August 4th, 2006 at 8:35 am
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