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RE: The Big List of Dodgy Apps
On 20 March 2007 14:58, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>> Norton/MacAffee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware
>
> IIRC, only specific versions were buggy...
>
>> Logitech webcam software with "Logitech process monitor" service
>>
>> Kerio, Agnitum or ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall
>
> Ditto here.
Yeh, but there's not really anything we can do about that except hope to
accumulate some information on known-good and known-bad versions along the
way; in the meantime, it's still worth listing them as 'potentially
suspicious'. Bear in mind that new versions could just as easily re-break
cygwin; it's likely that they're still using the same underlying
implementation techniques in their engines that led to problems in the past.
>> LanDesk
>
> I may be wrong, but I thought this was really part of some Symantec
> AntiVirus package...
The only reference I have to it is:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-03/msg00016.html
which suggests it's something separate - sounds like some kind of
corporatewareintramonitoringthingy.
Ah, here we go: http://www.landesk.com/. Doesn't look like any component of
symantec to me. It does seem likely that it integrates with the user's
corporate AV-ware.
cheers,
DaveK
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