After McAfee, CA antivirus software kills windows again

"Sadie Network News" July 11, according to foreign media reports, many users complained in Thursday, said the CA antivirus software mistakenly put Windows XP system files as a virus.

It is reported that the CA Internet Security Suite "Cygwin the files with extensions Zznra, ZZOFK, ZZNPB, and Zznra in Windows XP SP3 and commercial software" as "win32amalum" virus, causing users to not be able to find these files.

In this respect, the CA has confirmed that the user upgraded to the number No. 6606 virus library, resulting in the above-mentioned file was manslaughter. The CA also emphasizes that these files are only quarantined and deleted. Therefore, users can manually recover these files.

In this case, the CA apologized to the user, but pointed out that this was the first major manslaughter in 3 years. The CA said in a statement: "The anti-virus software of the ' manslaughter ' will always occur periodically, compared with other security vendors, the CA's manslaughter rate is still very low." “

Indeed, McAfee, the world's second-largest security software manufacturer, also had a manslaughter last week, including IE files, hp Compaq drivers and even McAfee's own McScript.exe files as "Pws!hv.aq" Trojans.

As early as May 2007, Symantec's Norton Antivirus software has also happened, after the virus database upgrade, the Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP key system files as a virus removal, resulting in system paralysis