>> A faulty signature update from Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday >> flagged up Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) as infected with a
>> low-risk virus, Huhk-C. As a result the core Windows component was >> quarantined or worse. > >AVG did something similar a few days ago, but not windows core, at least. And, given the recent report posted today on the list, (if it is close to accurate) the AV vendors will feel tremendous pressure to develop other solutions (whitelisting-like) or expand the signature/heuristics detection. The former will cause consumer users to decrease security by allowing everything and the latter will cause computers to have issues due to over-detection. Neither sounds like a good solution. Grannyx anyone? --Keith Keith Young, Security Official Department of Technology Services Montgomery County, Maryland phone - (240) 777-2955 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
