Quote:
Originally Posted by BetterRed
The VT (VirusTotal) suite included Avira, and AVG, Bitdefender, Kasperky and all the usual suspects, and Avast itself of course. But none of them detected the trojan that Avast distributed in its newly acquired CCleaner. Obviously MS Defender was not included in the VirusTotal suite. Whenever they have included it the howls of protest from the anti-MS crowd force them to remove it --- I wonder if they are the same crowd who claim the SARS-Cov2 pandemic is a conspiracy perpetrated by Bill Gates.
An occasional false positive might be acceptable, but a missed positive much less so.
To their credit, on being informed of the problem Avast removed the infected CCleaner from their downloads page immediately, predictably the crappy click-bait laden download sites like CNN didnt. The reputational damage was borne by CCleaner and its sister products - most people still don't know Avast gobbled up Piriform.
That wasn't the first time a program acquired in an M&A deal was deliberately infected by a disgruntled employee.
BR
|
Gotta love how so many thing Windows Defender is not good when really, it is good. They didn't want Defender there because it would show how the others are lousy and they paid for them. HAHAHA!