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echo: osdebate
to: mike
from: Geo.
date: 2007-05-20 13:56:26
subject: Re: Symantec false positive cripples thousands of Chinese PCs

From: "Geo." 

So where was Windows File Protection in all of this? Stops me from deleting
outlook express but it allows malware to delete critical windows files?

Geo.

"mike"  wrote in message
news:rnbu43p7uu3d0bom2lotfc28mu9oqoia53{at}4ax.com...
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId
=9019958
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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.

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