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Re: Oops: McAfee Update Exterminates Excel
From: Axel Pettinger <api () worldonline de>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:51:40 +0100
Larry Seltzer wrote:
If you do daily updates, you have very little time to do Quality Control.This is why I don't think that this is the way to do antivirus.Imagine the situation with companies like Kaspersky that do hourly updates.
Well, one of Kaspersky's partners distributed a bad update 3,5 weeks ago - it was a Friday too. The problem wasn't a false positive, but as the scanner of that partner was (still is) used to protect the mail system, the update caused problems for the mail system and attached mail clients which weren't very nice ...
The strange part to me is that McAfee does have beta definitions and I've heard from someone who tested them that the problems were present there. This means McAfee's QC people were truly asleep at the switch, and I'd hope someone gets publicly fired for it.
Obviously McAfee does Quality Control only using the command line scanner. And that was the problem here ... http://knowledgemap.nai.com/solution/mcafee/OfficialStatements/4715_DAT_W95-CTX_FAQ2.doc Regards, Axel Pettinger _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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