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Message-ID: <200409142057.i8EKvcer026839@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon. On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:03:59 CDT, Frank Knobbe said: > Alternatively, software manufacturers can add their applications into AV > exclusion lists upon installation of their products. Applications > already have to "register" with the operating systems. Why not make it > register with the AV software if the software is prone to false > positives? Or at least advice the end-user of such recommended manual > step during installation. Works great until the viruses start registering themselves when they install themselves (you know, the same stuff that already turns off firewalls and so on...) Putting up a dialog box that has to be user-clicked would help, but I don't think that Joe Sixpack would put up with it.... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20040914/cd7c72e1/attachment.bin
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