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UPDATE: CA antivirus trashing Windows system files
ZDnet ^
| 7/13/2009
| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Posted on 07/13/2009 12:43:25 PM PDT by Wooly
A tipster just pointed me to the CA support forums where there’s a lot of chatter about CA Anti-Virus misidentifying key Windows system files as malware.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: lowqualitycrap; windows
CA Anti-Virus is free to Roadrunner subscribers, but this has become a problem with a lot of major anti-virus programs lately.
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posted on
07/13/2009 12:43:25 PM PDT
by
Wooly
To: Wooly
If it identifying Vista as malware then perhaps it is right.
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posted on
07/13/2009 12:45:39 PM PDT
by
chris37
To: chris37
If it identifying Vista as malware then perhaps it is right. Don't forget BloatWare, SpyWare (or at least NoseyWare). And my favorite, CrapWare.
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posted on
07/13/2009 12:55:15 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
To: Wooly
I dropped CA security suite last year when its parental controls firewall blocked Freerepublic because it classifed the site as “hate” and YET, it allowed democratic underground.
It also blocked Ann Coulter’s web page as “adult.”
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posted on
07/13/2009 12:58:40 PM PDT
by
Never on my watch
(You are in the most danger when you are in the company of pacifists.)
To: Wooly
Computer Associates is the 2nd biggest software firm in the USA and perhaps the world, howbeit its following hard in the footsteps of Microsoft in building crapware & bloatware.
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posted on
07/13/2009 12:59:19 PM PDT
by
prophetic
(God, let 0Bama and his evil plans for this country fail & let him be utterly disgraced like HAMAN!!)
To: Wooly
To: Wooly
I have CA Anti-Virus and I spent a morning last week dealing with this mess. One of it's “updates” sent out a false positive causing MS files to pop up as viruses. I was one of the lucky ones and only had 3 files sent to quarantine. I followed the steps one forum poster gave by disabling the software, unchecking the “clean” boxes and “real-time” box. Basically, leaving my computer vulnerable. I restored the 3 quarantined MS files. Later, CA sent out a new update which resolved this issue. I've had no problem since. I did go back and recheck the boxes that I had unchecked.
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posted on
07/13/2009 2:15:18 PM PDT
by
girlscout
(Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?)
To: girlscout
You are better off using AVG free or Anti-vir (free version) than any of the big names.
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posted on
07/13/2009 2:24:55 PM PDT
by
Wooly
To: Wooly
avast free is more effective than avg.
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posted on
07/13/2009 4:51:22 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: Wooly
AVG’s done it before too. Any of them can get a false positive, you’re best off setting it to warn ONLY and decide from there what to do.
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posted on
07/13/2009 5:44:50 PM PDT
by
Fire_on_High
(One Big Ass Mistake America!)
To: ansel12; Wooly
Comodo firewall & Avira Anit-Virus
Works for me.
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posted on
07/13/2009 6:25:12 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus)
To: Tainan
avira does very well. I think commodo is too fussy but it is very effective.
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posted on
07/13/2009 6:28:17 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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