Good news: according to virustotal.com, McAfee no longer considers Xenu
to be malware.

Tilman

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:23:50 +0100, Tilman Hausherr wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:03:32 -0000, swschilke wrote:
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>>Have you tried sending them the file with a message that it is not a virus?
>
>Yes I did. I got a reply saying that it is not a virus. A few days
>later, I tried again on virustotal.com and its still listed as malware.
>So I responded to the mail and complained, and got a mail that they have
>"escalated" the issue to "senior" engineering. I just retested today on
>virustotal.com, Xenu is still considered to be malware.
>
>It is not the first time that I have had trouble with McAfee. Last time
>was 2008, when McAfee Siteadvisor had temporarly redflagged the whole
>snafu.de domain (my ISP) because of some outdated software that my ISP
>had on its ftp site.
>
>I bought a new PC recently. The very first thing I did was to delete the
>free McAfee software and install the product of another company :-)
>
>Tilman
>
>>
>>Pls. see here: http://community.mcafee.com/thread/6994 for an email address.
>>
>>--- In [email protected], Tilman Hausherr <til...@...> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> The only thing that would make it better, would be that McAfee would
>>> stop listing Xenu as "Trojan Artemis".
>>> 
>>...
>>
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