Re: Oops: McAfee Update Exterminates Excel

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Fergie wrote:

> Via C|Net News.
>
> [snip]
>
> For a brief period on Friday, McAfee's security tools killed more than
> viruses.
>
> An error in McAfee's virus definition file released Friday morning
> caused the company's consumer and enterprise antivirus products to flag
> Microsoft's Excel, as well as other applications on users' PCs, as a
> virus called W95/CTX, Joe Telafici, director of operations at McAfee's
> Avert labs, told CNET News.com.
>
> "At about 1 p.m. PST we started getting reports that people were seeing
> an unusual number of W95/CTX infections in their environment," Telafici
> said. "Files that we did identify would probably be deleted or
> quarantined, depending on your settings."

This is the kind of reason why I don't know of an antivirus that's good 
enough to use. If you're doing daily updates, how do you do quality 
control?

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