[32507] in Kerberos
Re: SpywareTerminator is flagging MIT kerberos as Malware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Stein)
Wed Jul 14 17:12:33 2010
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From: Andrew Stein <andrew1stein@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:57:42 -0500
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I thought the file might have been infected through other means -- but
certainly MIT Kerberos itself is not spyware.
I'll file a false positive report.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Jeffrey Altman <
jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> wrote:
> File a report with your spyware vendor.
> MIT Kerberos for Windows is not spyware.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
>
> On 7/14/2010 8:46 AM, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> > *Has anyone else seen this?*
> >
> > *Thanks,*
> >
> > *Jason
> > *
> >
> > *
> > *
> >
> > *From:* Andrew Stein [mailto:andrew1stein@gmail.com]
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:07 AM
> > *To:* Stein, Jack; Edgecombe, Jason
> > *Subject:* MIT Kerberos -- spyware? No way
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.spywareterminator.com/item/5472/details.html
> >
> > I scanned my computer for spyware and it is saying that the MIT Kerberos
> > install I have on my machine (from the UNCC website) is the
> > "CrystalysMedia" spyware.
> >
> > It has to be a false positive, but look at the description for this
> > spyware --
> >
> > *Adware Software that is displaying pop-up/pop-under windows containing
> > advertisements when the primary user interface is not visible or
> > displayed advertisements are not related to the product. *
> >
> >
> >
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