Notice: false McAfee virus report
Recently we discovered that McAfee anti-virus incorrectly identifies FolderSizes as being contaminated by the "W32/Gaobot.worm.gen.e virus".
This is a false alert. In fact, it affects a fairly large number of programs that use a specific anti-piracy protection system called Armadillo(which FolderSizes also uses). For a complete description of the problem, see the Network Associates, Inc. (e.g. McAfee) website bulletin at this location:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101447.htm
As the bulletin above indicates, the solution to this problem is to obtain the latest McAfee DAT update (available as of 06/24/2004).
This is a false alert. In fact, it affects a fairly large number of programs that use a specific anti-piracy protection system called Armadillo(which FolderSizes also uses). For a complete description of the problem, see the Network Associates, Inc. (e.g. McAfee) website bulletin at this location:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101447.htm
As the bulletin above indicates, the solution to this problem is to obtain the latest McAfee DAT update (available as of 06/24/2004).
posted by Mark Richards at 7:33 PM
