AplusWebMaster
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FYI…
- http://preview.tinyurl.com/28pz58
May 21, 2007 ~ (Computerworld) - "Millions of Chinese PCs running Symantec Corp. antivirus software have been incapacitated by a faulty virus signature distributed last week, government media reported Sunday. A virus-signature update delivered automatically to users on Friday about 1:00 a.m. Beijing time to Symantec's antivirus scanning engine mistook two critical system files of the Simplified Chinese edition of Windows XP Service Pack 2 for a Trojan horse. The two files – netapi32.dll and lsasrv.dll – were falsely quarantined, which in turn crippled Windows. If an affected PC was rebooted, Windows failed on start-up and showed only a blue screen… As recently as March, the company's enterprise antivirus scanner fingered a Windows XP and Windows 2000 system file – sfc.dll, which verifies the integrity of stored files – as malware. Like the newest error, this false reading quarantined a crucial file, which paralyzed some PCs."
> http://www.cisrt.org/enblog/read.php?100
May 18, 2007
- http://preview.tinyurl.com/28pz58
May 21, 2007 ~ (Computerworld) - "Millions of Chinese PCs running Symantec Corp. antivirus software have been incapacitated by a faulty virus signature distributed last week, government media reported Sunday. A virus-signature update delivered automatically to users on Friday about 1:00 a.m. Beijing time to Symantec's antivirus scanning engine mistook two critical system files of the Simplified Chinese edition of Windows XP Service Pack 2 for a Trojan horse. The two files – netapi32.dll and lsasrv.dll – were falsely quarantined, which in turn crippled Windows. If an affected PC was rebooted, Windows failed on start-up and showed only a blue screen… As recently as March, the company's enterprise antivirus scanner fingered a Windows XP and Windows 2000 system file – sfc.dll, which verifies the integrity of stored files – as malware. Like the newest error, this false reading quarantined a crucial file, which paralyzed some PCs."
> http://www.cisrt.org/enblog/read.php?100
May 18, 2007