19 Jul
2001
19 Jul
'01
10:35 a.m.
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
I had a report of someone in Canada having his virus software reporting the patch he grabbed just before the servers went away as containing a virus.
It could be a false positive. Virus scanners are pretty crude devices for the most part and false postives while not as common as they once were, still can occur.
Would seem especially likely with patches and the like, given they could easily be seen to be doing some very virus-like things. -- Dylan Reeve - dylan(a)wibble.net "Um, yeah." --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog