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Computer Associates E-Trust EZ Antivirus Blew It Today Wonderboy 02-03-2006
Posted by Wonderboy on February 3, 2006, 10:15 am
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On the day before the big Kama-Sutra invasion, Computer Associates appears
to have "turned off" the real time virus protection to scores of its
customers by "accidentally" sending out the wrong virus signature files.
What a crock! They got hacked and are afraid to admit it. What anti-virus
company would be dumb enough to send out the wrong signature files a day
before a major attack is planned. Admit it Computer Associates--- someone
hacked your program. What a disgrace.



Posted by Befunge Sudoku on February 3, 2006, 10:43 am
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hotjockonmyface@aim.com says...
> On the day before the big Kama-Sutra invasion, Computer Associates appears
> to have "turned off" the real time virus protection to scores of its
> customers by "accidentally" sending out the wrong virus signature files.
> What a crock! They got hacked and are afraid to admit it. What anti-virus
> company would be dumb enough to send out the wrong signature files a day
> before a major attack is planned. Admit it Computer Associates--- someone
> hacked your program. What a disgrace.
>
>
>
well...
Everybody's had detection for Nyxem for a couple of weeks at
least. So the "day before" stuff is irrelevant.
Major attack? You only get it by running an attachment to a
mail offering you porn. It's not going to hit many people, most
of whom (dare I say it?) deserve it.
Major attack (2) ? Quite a lot of other viruses have come out
in the last few days, all of them capable of messing up
people's machines quite well enough.

We used the media hype to panic our users into checking their
av is actually working. We haven't had any reports of Nyxem
hits but we've found a few misconfigured systems. So it's all
worked out rather well here. SO FAR.


--
If I'd known I'd live this long, I'd have taken better care of
myself.

Posted by George S. on February 3, 2006, 10:59 am
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I think you may have missed the earlier posts. It's not that people could
not update the Computer Associates AV program--- it's what happened when
they did--- the update SHUT DOWN the real-time protection on their systems.
Many systems were left unprotected. I see this as a real debacle for a
company like Computer Associates. I think they got hacked, but their
"official" explanation is that somehow they got sloppy with their servers,
which apparantly were sending out the wrong update files. A major boo-boo
for any computer security giant--- a major BLUNDER for Computer Associates
one day before the Kama-Sutra virus was scheduled to commence.


> well...
> Everybody's had detection for Nyxem for a couple of weeks at
> least. So the "day before" stuff is irrelevant.



Posted by Befunge Sudoku on February 3, 2006, 11:15 am
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In article <E5LEf.991$UF1.919
@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>, justpost@herethanks.com
says...
> I think you may have missed the earlier posts. It's not that people could
> not update the Computer Associates AV program--- it's what happened when
> they did--- the update SHUT DOWN the real-time protection on their systems.
> Many systems were left unprotected. I see this as a real debacle for a
> company like Computer Associates. I think they got hacked, but their
> "official" explanation is that somehow they got sloppy with their servers,
> which apparantly were sending out the wrong update files. A major boo-boo
> for any computer security giant--- a major BLUNDER for Computer Associates
> one day before the Kama-Sutra virus was scheduled to commence.

Oh, yes, that's bad - but it's not specifically Nyxem-related.
It just happened to happen at the same time.
>
>
> > well...
> > Everybody's had detection for Nyxem for a couple of weeks at
> > least. So the "day before" stuff is irrelevant.
>
>
>

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If I'd known I'd live this long, I'd have taken better care of
myself.

Posted by Charlie on February 3, 2006, 12:40 pm
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Well now let's hear from the resident E-Trust EZantivirus cheerleader...

Take it Heather......

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Charlie-


> In article <E5LEf.991$UF1.919
> @newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>, justpost@herethanks.com
> says...
>> I think you may have missed the earlier posts. It's not that people
>> could
>> not update the Computer Associates AV program--- it's what happened when
>> they did--- the update SHUT DOWN the real-time protection on their
>> systems.
>> Many systems were left unprotected. I see this as a real debacle for a
>> company like Computer Associates. I think they got hacked, but their
>> "official" explanation is that somehow they got sloppy with their
>> servers,
>> which apparantly were sending out the wrong update files. A major
>> boo-boo
>> for any computer security giant--- a major BLUNDER for Computer
>> Associates
>> one day before the Kama-Sutra virus was scheduled to commence.
>
> Oh, yes, that's bad - but it's not specifically Nyxem-related.
> It just happened to happen at the same time.
>>
>>
>> > well...
>> > Everybody's had detection for Nyxem for a couple of weeks at
>> > least. So the "day before" stuff is irrelevant.
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> If I'd known I'd live this long, I'd have taken better care of
> myself.



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