Re: [Full-Disclosure] anti-adware and false positives (was: Virus infect on single user)

From: Byron Copeland (nodialtone_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/11/04

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    To: Joshua Levitsky <jlevitsk@joshie.com>
Date: 10 Feb 2004 21:56:44 -0500

    On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 20:27, Joshua Levitsky wrote:
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Spiro Trikaliotis" <trik-news@gmx.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 für 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?

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