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Another Anti-virus related SNAFU

Submitted by Mike on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 10:04am
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In the news: another SNAFU related to malfunctioning anti-virus software. See: Symantec breaks Chinese XP systems due to a false positive.

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Antivirus software runs wild; damages user files.

Submitted by Mike on Sun, 03/12/2006 - 10:00pm
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Yes, Virginia, anti-virus software has bugs too!

For over five hours Friday, McAfee's anti-virus software erroneously flagged hundreds of legitimate executables as a malicious virus, leading some customers to quarantine or delete the offending files and render applications such as Microsoft Excel inoperative.

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