hackfix-virusnews: Even Antivirus Scanners Make Mistakes
- From: "Christy" <snowz@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackfix-virusnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 10:13:26 -0400
July 25, 2003
Even Antivirus Scanners Make Mistakes
By Larry Seltzer
Security fundamentally requires trust. You can't
function without trusting some other users and some
programs. On the other hand, you can't completely
trust everything, and that includes normally
trustworthy software, such as Symantec's Norton
AntiVirus.
A couple of months ago I began receiving virus
notifications about a file that had been on my hard
disk for a while. At that time, I was testing spyware
removal tools for PC Magazine and this was the
install file for one of the products. NAV reported
that it found Backdoor.IRC.dr in the file. The
suspicion about this infection was either inaccurate
or newsworthy.
Read more here:
http://security.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,3973,1203522,
00.asp
Copyright (c) 2003: Ziff Davis Media Inc. All rights
reserved.
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