Randal, Phil wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> There is an article on eWeek.com today concerning "instability" in AV >> software due to the impossibility of adequately testing updates when >> releasing them as quickly as they are needed >> (www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2240656,00.asp?kc=EWKNLINF010208STR3). >> > > Just to force the point home, NcAfee yesterday released datfile 5197 > yesterday which erroneously detected JS/Exploit-BO virus on sites like > ESPN and Friendster. > > They've since released dat 5198 to fix the problem. > > The problem of false positives from bad patterns or heuristics is, IMHO, > a good reason for never doing on-demand full scans of filesystems. >
No where near as good as Kaspersky identifying Internet Explorer as a virus, last month. When I was walking my friend through fixing it, and trying to keep her from bursting out into tears over and over again (she thought she lost her novel), it was all I could do to balance concern for her vs a desire to burst out in laughter that some AV source had finally done the right thing :-) _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
