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October 22nd, 2008, 12:01 AM
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Vista is a virus -- sorta.
It's always been joked about but now it finally happened. Vista was identified as a virus/trojan. ROFL
Source: The Register
McAfee has fixed an update glitch that wrongly slapped a Trojan classification on components of Microsoft Vista.
As a result of a misfiring update, published on Monday, the Windows Vista console IME executable was treated as a password-stealing Trojan. Depending on their setup, McAfee users applying would have typically found the component either quarantined or deleted.
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