full-disclosure - McAfee VirusScan vs Metasploit Framework v2.x

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Date: Sat Dec 10 03:47:45 2005
From: mhoye at neon.polkaroo.net (Mike Hoye)
Subject: McAfee VirusScan vs Metasploit Framework v2.x

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 01:17:30PM -0600, H D Moore wrote:
> 
> Looks like some overzealous idiot at McAfee added "Trojan" signatures for 
> 202 files in the latest version of the Metasploit Framework.

This is entirely as it should be. Accounts that don't have permission
to tell McAfee to ignore Metasploit are virtually guaranteed to be 
accounts that shouldn't have Metasploit in the first place.

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