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  • Fat Tone
    Super MURCer
    • Aug 1999
    • 7579
    #1

    Sophos shoots itself in the foot...

    ...and then scores an own-goal!

    Sophos Antivirus Detects Itself as Malware, Deletes Key Binaries
    http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/09/20/sophos-antimalware-software-detects-malware-deletes-critical-binaries/
    On Wednesday, Sophos antivirus products did something very wrong: they started detecting false positives. The company has since fixed the issue, but only on Thursday did it become clear what the fiasco was all about: the Sophos software was detecting its own binaries as malware. Here’s what happened. Earlier in the day Sophos warned its […]


    I was always a fan of Sophos from a security point of view, but disliked its pricing and frequent installation difficulties.

    FT.
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    • VJ
      Moderator
      • Mar 2001
      • 9733
      #2
      Well, at least it shows that the scanner correctly removes infected files...
      pixar
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        • Umfriend
          Crabby Smurf
          • Mar 2001
          • 7308
          #3
          This is not a bug, it's a....
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            • Fat Tone
              Super MURCer
              • Aug 1999
              • 7579
              #4
              opportunity for improvement?
              FT.

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