RE: FLASH: Flash Standlone Player is Infected with AOL PASSWORD STEALER trojan hoarse

[Intr3pid]

Virus detection is a reactive process, not a proactive one. If everybody

knew they weren't shipping a virus with one of their files, there wouldn't

be any virii around today. Virii are discovered AFTER they've been spread

around or appeared on the scene, not before.


The way anitvirus programs work is that they look for unusual stings of

coding that may qualify as a potential virus. While it may not be anybody's

intention to ship a virus along, the particular coding of a file may be so

done that a malicious hacker may find a backdoor in your computer security

measures (trojans) using the strings of that file that you're using.


Indeed, the answer will have to come from one of the two companies. I'm sure

that by now they are already on their way to rectify the error.


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Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash Standlone Player is Infected with AOL PASSWORD

STEALER trojan hoarse



At the time Flash 4 was shipped there were no known virus infections.  It's

much more likely that the updated Norton Antivirus detection is incorrectly

assuming that the Flash 4 Player contains a new virus.


I'll be contacting Symantec to report this problem but I don't anticipate a

resolution until some time after January 3.  Most of Macromedia and most of

Symantec are closed during the holiday period.


We had a similar situation occur with Director 4, where McAfee antivirus

mistakenly reported Director as being infected with a virus.  They released

an updated virus detection scheme which fixed this problem.


It's rare, but such incidents do occur.  It's unfortunate that this one

happened at this time.


Brad Bechtel

Flash QA




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