full-disclosure - More about the impact of the Trend sigs

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Date: Tue Apr 26 23:45:15 2005
From: sutpen at gmail.com (Thomas Sutpen)
Subject: More about the impact of the Trend sigs

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200504260127.html

>From the Asahi Shimbun:

"Trend Micro antivirus fix wasn't tested before release

04/26/2005
The Asahi Shimbun

An antivirus software program update that caused widespread computer
problems over the weekend was not thoroughly tested prior to its
release, maker Trend Micro Inc. admitted Sunday.

A bug in the Virus Buster software caused computer operations to loop,
causing affected machines to slow down or crash.

The glitch paralyzed rail, media and other online networks for hours
in Japan on Saturday. After tens of thousands of computers downloaded
and installed the upgrade, their operating systems began experiencing
the problems. "

[...]

TS