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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri May 18 19:25:12 2012, in response to Re: Tech stuff: anyone here using Avira Antivirus?, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri May 18 19:06:35 2012. You'll end up with the same results if there's a bad signature in the database. What happens here is that instead of selecting a unique bit of code from the virus sample, they mistakenly code up part of the compiler's code that will match numerous programs that compiler generates. In other words, the signature matches a key part of many files. Each gets nailed on the match. That's what happened here.I'd say you're safe on autoupdate for a while now while their asses are still sore. The next event will be when management insists on greater "productivity" and that's when the shortcuts will be back in effect that cause this. Determining a proper signature for a virus sometimes is fast and easy and obvious, other times it takes a lot of work (and time) to identify it. It's comparable to surgery. Sometimes all you need to do is stab it and it's gone, other times you have to carefully cut around brain cells. Management types that fail to understand this will force the surgeons to use a hatchet. That's what happened here and happens often with antivirus labs. It wasn't just the undetected viruses that romp for years that caused me to do KNOS, it was also THIS. :( |
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