Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:16 AM cmosby

SCCM Right Click Tools a Trojan? – Symantec’s Virus Definitions Have Gone Crazy…

After a look at the forums, it seems that Symantec’s virus definitions dated June 21, 2010 r2 have identified various components of the awesome SCCM Right Click Tools (which i personally couldn’t survive without) as “Trojan.Gen

Since this is a generic detection name “for many individual but varied Trojans for which specific definitions have not been created. A generic detection is used because it protects against many Trojans that share similar characteristics” this has to be a false positive.  This is just another example of how definition based anti-virus tools are a out dated concept.

Hopefully this grievous error has been rectified in the latest definitions.

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