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McAfee has apologised after an anti-virus update released on Monday night incorrectly identified a plug-in for Microsoft Office Live Meeting as a Trojan. The signature update file mistakingly flagged LMCAPI.exe (a component of Live Update) as a Trojan called Swizzor. As a result the component was incorrectly deleted from …

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  1. Tawakalna
    Happy

    and this is a problem because...?

    "Previous examples have included a Kaspersky update quarantining Windows Explorer"

    so Kaspersky was doing it's job right then! :)

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  2. Adrian Challinor
    Paris Hilton

    Fales positive???

    I think I could define MS Office Live as a virus. Good call by McAfee.

    Paris - she knows how to avoid catching a virus.

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  3. Mike Flugennock
    Jobs Halo

    Y'mean, it's NOT...?

    Hell, I was long going under the assumption that pretty much _everything_ MS put out was a virus/trojan of some kind...

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    or...

    Life might be easier if they'd just mark Windows as a Trojan.....

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  5. Herby
    Joke

    Windows Vista?

    Shouldn't this have a security alert as well. Then they can delete it and get on with their lives.

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  6. Steen Hive
    Joke

    The Elephant

    ..in the room is that MSO is a big fat bloated trojan horse anyway, no?

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  7. JC

    Quite Right

    Code doing what you don't want it to, downloading more code that potentially takes control, interferes with your use of a system, and breaks things. A rose by any other name ...

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  8. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Happy

    Why

    am I not at all surprised by these comments?

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  9. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    No big deal

    What's a few false positives against the real nasties?

    Paris likes a good false-positive!

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  10. suc
    Happy

    antivirus programs cause more problems than what they're supposed to protect

    all antivirus programs cause more problems than what they're supposed to protect.

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  11. Joe K

    Good stuff

    LMCAPI eats over 50 megs of ram while doing fuck all, and i've never used it, and don't know anyone who does (it only adds a livemeeting button to Outlook).

    Sounds like it was a FIX that got rolled out to me.

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  12. John Ellin
    Coat

    what do you mean "no ready solution is apparent"

    I run Linux and I never get false positives from an anti-virus program.

    I'll get my coat now.

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