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Good Luck trusting your antivirus vendor


Symantec’s antivirus software has crippled thousands of Chinese PCs following virus definition update. According to Computerworld, the latest update for the AV component of the various Norton packages mistook two system files in the Chinese edition of Windows XP SP2 for the ‘Backdoor.Haxdoor’ trojan. With these files removed, Windows XP will no longer start up, and even the system Safe Mode no longer functions.

It seems that Antivirus and Virus are equally scary nowadays. Luckily, all client windows systems in my office are running English version of Windows XP SP2 else it is going to be a busy Monday for my colleagues and probably me too (helping out). This sux!

This entry was posted on Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 2:35 am and is filed under Misc. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

4 Comments to “Good Luck trusting your antivirus vendor”

  1. Irwan Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 9:45 am

    Thank you for sharing this news. Now, it’s not a mistake to say; Shame on you, Symantec.

  2. Kevin Foo (chfl4gs_) Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 10:40 am

    Indeed. Shame on Symantec. Wondering if there will be legal actions by Chinese corporations.

  3. Irwan Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    By the way, I still remember this story.
    Oops, Symantec did it again ;)

  4. Kevin Foo (chfl4gs_) Says:
    May 26th, 2007 at 12:27 am

    I’ve missed that rinbot thing. Probably went unnoticed. Thanks for the link BTW.

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