Oops: McAfee Update Flags Hundreds of Innocuous Programs
Brian Krebs writes on Security Fix:
Anti-virus giant McAfee acknowledged late last week that a recent update to a number of its software products went terribly awry, causing them to flag hundreds of legitimate third-party programs as hostile and prompting users to delete or quarantine them.More here.
The files identified by McAfee as malicious included excel.exe (Microsoft Excel) and gtb2k1033.exe (Google Toolbar installer), as well as programs that run Macromedia Flash Player, Sun's Java application and Adobe update manager.
The erroneous flags even apply to updaterui.exe, McAfee's own update program. The full list of programs errantly marked as bad is here in PDF format, although McAfee only lists the ".exe" files affected, not the names of the software packages.
McAfee flagged the harmless files as "W95/CTX," and obscure Windows 95 virus that McAfee first identified in 2004. McAfee says this problem appeared in updates for VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i, 7.1 and 7.0; Managed VirusScan 4.0 and 3.5; Virus Scan Online 11 and 10; Linux Shield; and VirusScan 7.03 (consumer).
posted by Fergie @ 3/13/2006 07:27:00 AM
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