CA e-Trust Likely Issuing False Positives…

By Bill • December 31, 2007

Much to my surprise I opened up a web page to Projects Possible this morning and I was greeted with a Virus Infection alert. I was quite surprised and then began to wonder if somehow through my comments I was being infected. I started a web search and what I found is that there is most likely a bad virus definition update from CA e-Trust (my virus scanning software) that is causing legitimate web pages that use JSQuery and Mootools to report as being infected with JS.Snz.A.

I checked on my CA eTrust and I currently have the update dated December 31st, 2007 – 31.3.5417.0. This was loaded automatically on my system last night. Hopefully CA will check it out and issue an update quickly.

There are a couple of additional postings that you can check out:

Channel Register talks about it here.
Dynamoo discusses it here.

Categories: Blogging, Personal, Work On
Tags: blog, security, virus

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Bill

I am a project manager for a software company. Currently my focus is on system implementation and training. My background also includes training development including web based and self-paced instructional materials. I have an extensive background in retail information systems including Point of Sale, Inventory Control and Business Management.

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