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Offline Nemesis

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Norton antivirus disables thousands (at least) of Chinese computers.
« on: May 19, 2007, 12:58:37 pm »
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A signature update to Symantec's anti-virus software crippled thousands of Chinese PCs Friday when the security software took two critical Windows .dll files for malware.

According to numerous blog entries from Chinese computer users, a virus signature database seeded yesterday mistook two system files of a Chinese edition of Windows XP SP2 as a Trojan horse which Symantec dubs "Backdoor.Haxdoor." The anti-virus software -- Norton AntiVirus, for example, or the anti-virus component of the Norton 360 or Norton Internet Security suites -- then quarantined the netapi32.dll and lsasrv.dll files.


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Re: Norton antivirus disables thousands (at least) of Chinese computers.
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2007, 05:12:47 pm »
This is proof to everyone that says Norton sucks is wrong!!!!  :-D
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Re: Norton antivirus disables thousands (at least) of Chinese computers.
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2007, 05:00:46 am »
Hmm, I would suspect that there were several hackers from China that led to this assumption from Norton...analyzing a virus found that it had those files in relation to it...and found it was relatively non-harmful on Western Computers?

Then disabled it and low and behold, those computers from the same nation as the hackers suddenly developed problems?
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Re: Norton antivirus disables thousands (at least) of Chinese computers.
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2007, 06:09:31 am »
Considering that Norton also did the same to Church software in England last year I'd say it was Norton messing up.  Expect more of the same from all antivirus and antispyware suppliers as time goes on.
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Re: Norton antivirus disables thousands (at least) of Chinese computers.
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2007, 07:03:36 am »
This sort of thing is nothing new, I swear that people have short memories.  Does anyone still remember (besides me) when Trend Micro released a patch that totally screwed up thousands of computers??!?  That included Japan's traffic controller systems by the way.  That patch from Trend Micro forced me to reformat/reload my system.
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Re: Norton antivirus disables thousands (at least) of Chinese computers.
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2007, 10:23:42 am »
I have occasionally heard bad things about Trend Micro but don't recall any particular incident probably because I've never even seen their software for sale here.

Way back one of the anti virus companies misidentified PKZip as a virus and the reponse was so slow from them that a new version of PKZip was released just to stop all the complaints.  So yes this has been an ongoing issue.
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Re: Norton antivirus disables thousands (at least) of Chinese computers.
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2007, 12:12:55 pm »
Hey, as long as Norton disables Chinese P/Cs then I'm all for it! I do not think Norton will be getting a lot of customers there though, I imagine McAffee is gloating over there right now.
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Re: Norton antivirus disables thousands (at least) of Chinese computers.
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2007, 12:27:36 pm »
That is a scary situation considering Symantec's products used to be part of a Windows install. I think this is yet another round in MS corporate warfare scheme against the world to force everyone to buy x-boxs' and use MSN as their mail service.
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Re: Norton antivirus disables thousands (at least) of Chinese computers.
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2007, 01:34:27 pm »
I hate norton products. Absolute bloatware.
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Re: Norton antivirus disables thousands (at least) of Chinese computers.
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2007, 07:44:55 am »
Quote from: Punisher NCC-2000 on May 23, 2007, 01:34:27 pm
I hate norton products. Absolute bloatware.

Non-uninstallable bloatware
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