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Trend Micro gives false positive details
Blog The false positive identification of Windows systems files by Trend Micro Internet Security began at 4.30pm BST on 4 September with signature 5.521.50. The false positive affected Trend Micro users in Germany and Norway.
[September 10, 2008, 17:28]
Trend Micro gives false positive details
Blog Comment Yes, a false positive. False positives are a very dangerous game. Arg! This really irks me. Think, you've put together some small utility program, and one of the virus programs calls it a virus. People talk about it being a trojan on the internet.
[December 22, 2008, 7:05]
HSBC home banking web site trojan "false report",says bank
Blog Comment Then that's a pretty bad false positive. Sometimes removing a false positive can be devastating. Not so in this case I assume. Still, the words 'Trojan' and 'Online banking' send a shiver down the old spine.
[August 17, 2009, 9:45]
Measuring the False Negative Rate for Isode's M-Switch Anti-Spam
White Papers A consequence of this is that false positive rate will vary between users. Some users will only receive messages of a type that the anti-spam system will always correctly handle, and see a zero false positive rate.
[February 13, 2009, 0:24]
Developer considers McAfee suit after 'Trojan' error
News Griffiths said he was "not ruling out" filing a lawsuit against McAfee even after the antivirus company yesterday morning released an update to their antivirus DAT (signature file) which fixes the false positive.
[September 10, 2004, 11:10]
Users upset as CA antivirus attacks Windows
News CA said it learned on Wednesday that its software had detected the file "Win32/AMalum.ZZQIA" as a false positive and was urging customers to update Signature 6606 to address the situation. This latest nonsense with a false positive detection that...
[July 10, 2009, 11:55]
Microsoft: OneCare should not have been rolled out
News Microsoft apologised for the problems and has issued an update that has now been automatically pushed out to OneCare customers, to halt the false positive identification as malware of Outlook .pst and Outlook Express .dbx files.
[March 16, 2007, 12:03]
Japanese police tune biometrics for foreign suspects
News There's always a chance of getting a false negative or a false positive, but the cut-off value tries to minimise that," said Blackwell. Extensive testing in Japan was used to determine a cut-off value for a positive match.
[June 20, 2003, 8:43]
Kaspersky quarantines Windows Explorer
News David Emm, a senior technology consultant at Kaspersky Lab, told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday that the company was still examining its checklist to find out why the false positive "slipped through the net". This is classic false-alarm territory," said Emm.
[December 21, 2007, 11:50]
Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy stuff ..
Talkback "to halt the false positive identification as malware of Outlook files" why? it seems to me that microsoft is finally admitting that at least some of its software is in fact malware . Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products.
[March 20, 2007, 14:55]
Improved Detection System of Denial of Service Attack
White Papers A problem with current intrusion detection systems is that they have many false positive and false negative events. Most of the existing Intrusion detection systems implemented nowadays depend on rule-based expert systems where new attacks are not...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Microsoft AntiSpyware: Is it worth bothering with?
Talkback And was it a confirmed find or a false positive? Chris, strange that your anti-virus software didn't detect the keystroke logger. Which keystroke logger was it anyway?
[January 26, 2005, 21:09]
Measuring Intrusion Detection Capability: An Information-Theoretic Approach
White Papers Traditional metrics (e.g.true positive rate and false positive rate) measure different aspects, but no single metric seems sufficient to measure the capability of intrusion detection systems. A fundamental problem in intrusion detection is what...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Cheap build, lacking admin features and sucky reporting
Member Review User input screwed the database quickly, raising our false positive rate through the roof. After a shipping issue where the RAM DIMMs had fallen out of the box, it was a doddle to install. Then our experiences turned south.
[November 17, 2004, 7:35]
Vaccine
Downloads Besides finding and eliminating HyperCard viruses in your stacks, it will offer to compact each stack to eliminate free space (which can reduce the "false positive" reports from other virus checkers) and it can lock your Home stack against future...
[May 7, 2000, 8:00]
BoxSweeper
Downloads This is very useful if you want to prioritize your inbox, and if you are using anti-spam software, it can prevent the dreaded "false positive". Starting with Eudora 5.2, it is now possible to check an incoming email to see if it matches against the...
[November 29, 2002, 6:00]
Network-Based Intrusion Detection Using Adaboost Algorithm
White Papers The experiments demonstrate that the system can achieve an especially low false positive rate while keeping a preferable detection rate, and its computational complexity is extremely low, which is a very attractive property in practice.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Detection of Web Denial-of-Service Attacks Using Decoy Hyperlinks
White Papers Typical types of decoy hyperlinks are described and experimental results derived from real Web-sites gives the extremely low false positive rate of 0.0421%. In this paper a method for detecting Denial-of-Service attacks in Web sites is presented.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Selecting Features for Intrusion Detection: A Feature Relevance Analysis on KDD 99 Intrusion Detection Datasets
White Papers Numerous researchers employed the datasets in KDD 99 intrusion detection competition to study the utilization of machine learning for intrusion detection and reported detection rates up to 91% with false positive rates less than 1%.
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
Enterprise Requirements for Anti-Spam Solutions
White Papers There are a number of features organizations should look for when evaluating an anti-spam product, such as high spam capture and low false-positive rates. This white paper examines the special anti-spam requirements of large organizations.
[February 1, 2009, 2:36]
