I was looking at this http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/10/06/antivir-f-secure-and-kasperksy-fail-latest-virus-bulletin-test story.
What does this mean? I use AntiVir - partly based on the excellent reviews that I have read here. But what does this single failure mean?
Thanks
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lineS of flight Notebook Virtuoso
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When an antivirus scanner reports a file as being infected, when in fact it is not, that reporting is considered a false positive.
Better that way than actually getting a virus the program fails to see -
gary_hendricks Notebook Evangelist
False positive by AntiVir = It detected a virus when there was none.
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That's an interesting article; thanks. I've never gotten a false positive with Kaspersky, but have with AVG, Avast, Norton (ick), etc. Never used AntiVir either.
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usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate
Occasionally, especially with executable files (.exe), an anti-virus program might accidentally flag the file as a virus, that's what it means.
What exactly does this imply....AV-Related
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by lineS of flight, Oct 6, 2008.