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Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:31:06 +0200 |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Richard M. Heiberger" <address@hidden>,
> address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:03:29 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> > You are right: this is a false alarm. Let Symantec people know about
> > it, and ask them to get their act together.
>
> That's hopeless, especially since we're now up to about 3 maybe 4 such
> false alarms (ie, from different Wolf-Crying Peter companies).
>
> (1) They'll say "better safe than sorry," and guess what? they're
> right! (as far as that goes, see (2)).
>
> (2) It's impossible for anybody but Microsoft to truly get the act
> together, because the 3rd party virus checkers have to look for
> "signatures" in the content. This is so that software whose whole
> selling point is "you don't need to know squat to use this because
> it's all automatic" can continue to oh-so-conveniently
> automatically run pretty much anything you download off the
> InterSewer. False positives are pretty much inevitable with this
> technology.
Is all this based on facts or on assumptions? IOW, did you ever
report such problems to Symantec, and got the above as response?
I don't know about Symantec (don't use their products), but with AVG
it works as expected: you submit the offending file for their
analysis, via the GUI of the antivirus program, and get an email
notification, usually within hours, saying that it's a false alarm;
and the virus database is updated within a couple of days accordingly.
So if Symantec is really behaving like you describe, their users
should simply find a better product.
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Richard M. Heiberger, 2012/02/03
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/02/03
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/02/03
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/02/03
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/02/03
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Lennart Borgman, 2012/02/11
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Lennart Borgman, 2012/02/11
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/02/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Lennart Borgman, 2012/02/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Stefan Monnier, 2012/02/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/02/12
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Lennart Borgman, 2012/02/13
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published, Lennart Borgman, 2012/02/14