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Comments on: McAfee slaps Trojan warning on MS Office Live

Windows Vista? 

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 17:38 GMT

Joke

Shouldn't this have a security alert as well. Then they can delete it and get on with their lives.

The Elephant 

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 18:28 GMT

Joke

..in the room is that MSO is a big fat bloated trojan horse anyway, no?

and this is a problem because...? 

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 18:33 GMT

Happy

"Previous examples have included a Kaspersky update quarantining Windows Explorer"

so Kaspersky was doing it's job right then! :)

Fales positive??? 

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:08 GMT

Paris Hilton

I think I could define MS Office Live as a virus. Good call by McAfee.

Paris - she knows how to avoid catching a virus.

Y'mean, it's NOT...? 

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:27 GMT

Jobs Halo

Hell, I was long going under the assumption that pretty much _everything_ MS put out was a virus/trojan of some kind...

or... 

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 19:30 GMT

Coat

Life might be easier if they'd just mark Windows as a Trojan.....

Quite Right 

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 20:25 GMT

Code doing what you don't want it to, downloading more code that potentially takes control, interferes with your use of a system, and breaks things. A rose by any other name ...

Why 

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 21:27 GMT

Happy

am I not at all surprised by these comments?

No big deal 

Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 04:56 GMT

Paris Hilton

What's a few false positives against the real nasties?

Paris likes a good false-positive!

antivirus programs cause more problems than what they're supposed to protect 

Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 08:04 GMT

Happy

all antivirus programs cause more problems than what they're supposed to protect.

Good stuff 

Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 08:23 GMT

LMCAPI eats over 50 megs of ram while doing fuck all, and i've never used it, and don't know anyone who does (it only adds a livemeeting button to Outlook).

Sounds like it was a FIX that got rolled out to me.

what do you mean "no ready solution is apparent" 

Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 17:26 GMT

Coat

I run Linux and I never get false positives from an anti-virus program.

I'll get my coat now.

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