trojan in 5.10.1

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by DNSB

What I loved was the group a few years back who protested having WiFi in schools since WiFi was linked to diseases and cancers. The same kids who are wandering around with their cellphones glued to their ears. Sadly, most of their links that "proved" their claim ranged from anecdotal to bad science.

People just see "radiation!" and freak out.

Bananas are actually slightly radioactive, though you'd need to eat a few million of them to get poisoned.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

People just see "radiation!" and freak out.

Bananas are actually slightly radioactive, though you'd need to eat a few million of them to get poisoned.

And cheese can be full of bacteria.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

And cheese can be full of bacteria.

Your guts are full of bacteria anyway... and your skin... and your mouth... etc.etc.

[DNSB]

And eating too many carrots can lead to carotenemia.

Though the claim that you can catch a virus from your computer remains an urban myth.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Your guts are full of bacteria anyway... and your skin... and your mouth... etc.etc.

And if you destroy the bacteria in your gut, you can get some rather nasty opportunistic infections moving in!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by DNSB

And eating too many carrots can lead to carotenemia.

Though the claim that you can catch a virus from your computer remains an urban myth.

Wait! I caught a horrific case of Google from XP

[JSWolf]

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!

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

They didn't want Defender there because it would show how the others are lousy and they paid for them. HAHAHA!

Is that the best you can come up with?

[hobnail]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But why bother when Microsoft supply a good AV with Windows?

It's like the old saying goes, "A fool and his money are soon parted." Ever since Microsoft came out with Windows Defender only silly people buy AV software. Windows was such a magnet for viruses that Microsoft *had* to start dealing with it rather than rely on the AV vendors to solve the problem. And they're the best ones to deal with the problem since they wrote Windows and can eyeball the code to see what vulnerabilities a virus is exploiting.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by hobnail

It's like the old saying goes, "A fool and his money are soon parted." Ever since Microsoft came out with Windows Defender only silly people buy AV software. Windows was such a magnet for viruses that Microsoft *had* to start dealing with it rather than rely on the AV vendors to solve the problem. And they're the best ones to deal with the problem since they wrote Windows and can eyeball the code to see what vulnerabilities a virus is exploiting.

Windows Defender gets very few false positives. I've had none at all since installing Windows 10. Microsoft updates the virus definitions quite often. So it's kept updated.

To get back on topic, what other AV is known to give Calibre a false positive?

[PeterT]

Let's 5ake this discussion on A/V tools to the lounge please.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Windows Defender gets very few false positives. I've had none at all since installing Windows 10. Microsoft updates the virus definitions quite often. So it's kept updated.

I've gotten more than a few false positives with Defender. I just exempt them though.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Let's 5ake this discussion on A/V tools to the lounge please.

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Peter - sometimes we need to use brute force

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BR