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: > >>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snafu.de domain (my ISP) because of some outdated software that my ISP 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: >>... >>> >>> The only thing that would make it better, would be that McAfee would >>> stop listing Xenu as "Trojan Artemis". >>> >>... >> >> >> >>------------------------------------ >> >>Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> > > >------------------------------------ > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
