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neoxed · 10-19-2004, 05:21 PM

Grendel, anti-virus vendors do not intentionally add false positives or blacklists. What usually happens is, a user or an administrator may discover that their system has been compromised and will submit the "root kit" related files. (Using the reporting tool included with their anti-virus software, etc.) Eventually, the anti-virus vendor will include signatures for those applications; not all vendors spend a great amount of time determining whether those applications are legitimate or actually âroot kitâ files.

10-19-2004, 05:21 PM
neoxed Too much time... Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 1,326	Grendel, anti-virus vendors do not intentionally add false positives or blacklists. What usually happens is, a user or an administrator may discover that their system has been compromised and will submit the "root kit" related files. (Using the reporting tool included with their anti-virus software, etc.) Eventually, the anti-virus vendor will include signatures for those applications; not all vendors spend a great amount of time determining whether those applications are legitimate or actually âroot kitâ files.