full-disclosure - anti-adware and false positives (was: Virus infect on single user)

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Message-ID: <1076468204.4535.30.camel@Stargate>
From: nodialtone at comcast.net (Byron Copeland)
Subject: anti-adware and false positives (was: Virus
	infect on single user)

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 20:27, Joshua Levitsky wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Spiro Trikaliotis" <trik-news@....de>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:55 AM
> 
> > Yes, you get rid of EVERYTHING - especially of things you still need.
> > :-(
> >
> > Is there any developper on this list who uses a Microsoft DDK f?r NT4,
> > 2000 or XP? You cannot use Adaware on such a machine, as it always
> > stumbles on the headers and source files of the provided examples,
> > especially the network examples. It tells me they would be part of some
> > malware.
> 
> Ad-Aware has a nice thing where you can pick to ignore certain files. Do a
> scan of your system and be very careful on the first scan to go through and
> see what each thing is. Mark all your DDK stuff as ignore. All done. And
> seperately you might want to email the LavaSoft guys and let them know about
> the false positive.
> 

Cool, so DoomShiza deposits itself in the development libs.... we're
golden right?

> --
> Joshua Levitsky, MCSE, CISSP
> System Engineer
> Time Inc. Information Technology
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