McAfee Anti-virus Software Flawed
`Late last week, anti-virus vendor McAfee acknowledged that its anti-virus software had mistakenly flagged hundreds of legitimate third-party programs as malware, prompting some customers to delete or quarantine these programs.
The error lay in McAfee’s daily virus definition file called DAT, causing genuine files to be identified as W95/CTX – a virus first discovered in 2004. [..]
The files that were dubbed malicious were Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet, Adobe’s Flash, Google’s Toolbar installer, parts of Sun Microsystems’ Java Runtime Environment and several Adaptec drivers.’
