Warning about Symantec detections

by certifiedbug on November 18, 2007

in Programs, Security

If you have Norton installed on your computers you should pay attention to this.

Chris Quirke’s Blog: Norton Security Scan - False Positives

Unfortunately, it detects protective settings applied by Spyware Blaster and similar tools, as being the malware these tools are protecting against.

Hosts News: Symantec detects suspicious entries in the MVPS HOSTS file

… seems Symantec added a new update SecurityRisk.URLRedir which they describe as “detection for suspicious entries added to the hosts file”

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