McAfee false positive flags Vista component

Innocent file labelled trojan.

McAfee

has updated one of its detections after a faulty update led to an integral component of the

Windows Vista

operating system being falsely flagged as a trojan horse.

The innocent file, the

Windows

console input method editor executable

conime.exe

, was alerted on as a password-stealing trojan for online gaming software thanks to an error in the identification routine, which has since been fixed by the released of an updated ‘DAT’ definition file.

No details have been released on how many customers were affected by the issue. Comment can be found at

The Register


here

, with details of the faulty update at

McAfee


here

.

Posted on 22 October 2008 by

Virus Bulletin