Tuesday, December 2, 2008

CA False Positive on Youtube catch other security vendor attention?

CrunchGear released a post regarding virus is infecting certain embedded YouTubes video. The virus name called Actns/Swif.T (CA) and some said it look after IE browsers. The virus will redirect back to phishing website and installs Antivirus 2009.

However, CA-Computer Associates identifying certain files detected in YouTubes video as malicious code return False Positives.

Although this posted was identified as False Positive, it catch security vendors attention to update their products to prevent from any similar issue. To be sure their customers are always protected by their security solutions without any returning any harms.

Resource: http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/02/actnsswift-virus-affecting-embedded-youtube-vids/

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