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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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