TechSpot en EspaņolMost Popular
| Top Stories | Just in | Featured |
11 awesome applications you've never heard of featured
Microsoft to offer three-user Windows 7 Family Pack?
2K Games offers "Huge Game Pack" on Steam for $54
Fallout 3 gets 50% price cut on Steam this weekend
Apple issues advice on iPhone 3GS overheating
Firefox 3.5 breaks 5 million downloads in 24 hours
TS Community
| User Gallery | Recent Discussion |
 My final build minus the cold cathodes 2 by alvdy |  The New Rig by toddy89 |
 little people by jtickner1 |  Corsair_XMS_PC4000 by werty316 |
TechSpot RSSInformation Technology
Microsoft anti-spyware labels Symantec as Malware
You might see some serious inter-corporate face slapping over this one: a recent update to Microsoft anti-spyware led to two versions of Symantec's anti-virus software being wrongly labelled as Trojan horse malware! Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition and Symantec Client Security packages were mistakenly identified by Windows AntiSpyware beta 1 as the Bancos-A Trojan, a password stealing malware.
Symantec is working with affected customers, the number of which is expected to be small, because the mislabeling error only happens when a combination of enterprise software and consumer test software are used together. Users of Symantec's consumer security products were not affected by the issue, which was in any case limited to Windows AntiSpyware beta 1 and not its later Windows Defender beta 2 product.
Symantec is working with affected customers, the number of which is expected to be small, because the mislabeling error only happens when a combination of enterprise software and consumer test software are used together. Users of Symantec's consumer security products were not affected by the issue, which was in any case limited to Windows AntiSpyware beta 1 and not its later Windows Defender beta 2 product.
Related Stories
User Comments (4)
Post a comment| exscind on February 14, 2006 5:21 PM | Oh man this is gold. I wonder how much of an "accident" this is. Microsoft's anti-spyware has been nothing but hassle to me. Anything bad that's detectable, Adaware and Spybot take care of it. Microsoft likes to skim by products that the former two discovered, while bringing up programs that I know are not malwares. All in all, I think Microsoft needs much more work before it can ever hope of competing with the other free anti-spywares out on the Internet.
|
| fiziks on February 14, 2006 5:40 PM | jesus christ
|
| 67gtv on February 14, 2006 7:00 PM | Am I glad I stumbled across this article! Count me as one of the 'few' affected customers. MSAS (or MWAS) automatically removed the Bancos-A trojan from three of our PCs. Now I'm faced with the daunting task of manually removing SAV. To my boss, "I told you so."
|
| DragonMaster on February 14, 2006 7:13 PM | Hehehe, M$ anti-spyware is now also M$ anti-crapware?
|
