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Information Technology News Norton turns into mental lipstick-wearing false-positive pig
Information Technology News Norton turns into mental lipstick-wearing false-positive pig | Norton turns into mental lipstick-wearing false-positive pig |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Thursday, 11 December 2008 | |
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While still in Madrid, just an hour or so after the launch of Norton Internet Security 2009, I posted a story here at iTWire which asked if NIS 2009 was just lipstick on a pig. Featured Whitepaper
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I was shocked to discover it actually worked, Norton actually removed itself without leaving a ton of horse crap behind on my system. In fact, I was so pleased with it that I ended up installing NIS 2009 on one of my main workhorse laptops. Everything was fine, until yesterday. Until Norton Internet Security 2009 insisted that iTWire was trying to attack my network. To be honest, I doubted this very much. What with being a writer for them and all, and knowing the people who run the place, I was pretty sure that was not the case. Yet there in front of my eyes was the evidence: the Norton screen telling me that it had blocked an intrusion attempt by iTWire. To be precise, it accused iTWire of trying to download a suspicious PDF file download which matched the signature of a known attack. A quick bit of research at the Symantec support site suggested that there were no known cases of false positives associated with this signature, and that the attack risk level was high. Of course I let the iTWire admin guys know so they could investigate further. Was iTWire trying to attack my network, and if not what the heck was going on? Find out on page 2. CONTINUES |
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