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[themissingy]

Spent most of the day yesterday thinking that there was a trojan in a software package I piloted. Turned out in the afternoon that it was a false positive by an anti-virus vendor.

It's been almost a full 24 hours since I found out that I did NOT distribute a dropper, but several facial muscles are still twitching...

Twitch.

Comments

[marstheinfomage]

oh come on, which of us has never "accidentally" deleted a live database, or overwrote some important system files on a server right BEFORE a backup, or formatted the wrong drive, or something?

let it be a lesson, but don't let it be a twitchy one. people make mistakes - the important thing is to live up to them afterwards (so if the thing actually DID include a rootkit, notify everybody immediately and let them know how to clean it out as soon as you find out how)

also, might want to try some other antiviruses, if there's crap which a scan with this one finds but the real-time monitor doesn't.

[themissingy]

You sure the appropriate live-up-to-this action is not to illegally emigrate to Argentina?

Some other antiviruses would conflict badly with certain security policies in place (the number of those has been increasing exponentially lately...); plus there was a don't-try-it-at-home article about pitching different AV engines against each other. Basically, they ended up recognizing each other as viruses and crippling each others' pattern files.

But yes, after two days of shopping, I no longer twitch. My credit card does :)

[marstheinfomage]

Argentina might be warm, but has a whole other batch of viruses, which you don't want to deal with :) And the other appropriate live-up-to-this action is to blame it on someone else :P

security policies are good - as are antiviruses. so you poke holes in one to make room for the other - but the holes cane be small and restrictive. and it doesn't matter which you do it in :)

multiple antiviruses - yes, I think it was Exler who produced that one :) but i meant getting a new one after first removing the one you have now!

"But yes, after two days of shopping, I no longer twitch. My credit card does :)" - as long as you're happy - the credit card will have to live with it :) (particularly since it's not mine! :P)