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
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