From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Symantec Enpoint Protection Detects Emacs 24.1.0.0 As Virus Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:36:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340070015 20110 80.91.229.3 (19 Jun 2012 01:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:40:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 03:40:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SgnQS-0000Oz-G9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:40:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SgnQS-0002L0-HZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:40:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe11.iad.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7oy7h47rZShkZWs+SQ2FlpCnlPk= Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:36:12 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 2040 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192903 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85298 Archived-At: > I'm a long time Emacs user and recently ran into a problem running Emacs > 24.1.0.0 on a machine using Symantec's Endpoint Protection Software. Great opportunity to throw away your virus scanner. These are useless beasts that do nothing better than eat up your computer's resources. It's just as easy (and a lot more safe and efficient) to upgrade the OS to fix the bug, than to upgrade your virus scanner to catch some of the viruses that might exploit that bug. Virus scanners make you feel nice and warm every time they tell you they detected a virus, even tho it may not be a virus at all, or even if it is, it will most of the time be ineffective on your system anyway (because the actual bug was fixed in the mean time). > The OS is Windows 7. Of course, rather than throw away just the virus scanner, you can also just throw away the whole OS and replace it with a Free one. > I submitted a 'False Positive' report with Symantec and they issued a 'virus > definition' file which resolved the problem BUT implied it is only valid for > this particular version of emacs. An email from Symantec contained the > following suggestion: Yup: virus scanners are crap software that sucks, because it's based on flawed technology. It's about as stupid as a "no-fly" list of "dangerous names". Stefan