Symantec slaps Trojan alert against Spotify
Scanner turns song software slayer
Symantec has apologised over a cock-up that resulted in the incorrect classification of streaming music service Spotify as a Trojan on Thursday.
A misfiring anti-virus definition update caused Symantec's Norton security software to wrongly classified Spotify program files as malign and shuffled them off into quarantine. Symantec responded quickly to the problem by issuing a fix that quashed the false alarm. Even after they update their security software, Symantec users may still have to reinstall Spotify in order to listen to the service again.
False alarms involving security scanners packages are a regular occurrence that, if anything, seem to be growing in frequency. Only last week a dodgy update from Kaspersky Lab labeled Google AdSense as malign. On other occasions Windows systems files or applications get black-flagged by anti-virus scanners, a snag Spotify has hit before.
Last May a dodgy McAfee update slapped a viral warning on Spotify, causing much the same problems as the Symantec miss-classification. ®
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COMMENTS
First Kaspersky
With google adsence, Now symantec with spotify. Must be all them doubleclick ads that spotify keeps trying to shove in my face as well as bust my ear drums.
AVG
AVG has been doing the same, I had to add an exception into AVG the other day to allow Spotify to run.
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