[pchelpers] News:CA issues false warning on JavaScript apps

Pete Tong on New Year's eve
By John Leyden 
Published Monday 31st December 2007 14:26 GMT

A mis-firing anti-virus update from CA issued on Monday wrongly
identified legitimate JavaScript files as a virus.

The eTrust signature update wrongly identified JSQuery (a JavaScript
AJAX library) and Mootools (a JavaScript web 2.0 library) and other
complex JavaScript packages as being contaminated with the Snz-A
JasaScript malware. Users running CA eTrust (also known as Vet
Anti-Virus) who applied the dodgy update were liable to find themselves
confronted by false alarms that their systems were infected when
visiting legitimate websites, causing unnecessary alarm in the process.

More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/31/ca_dodgy_update/
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