MobileRatty: Using CA Anti-Virus? Beware false positives for win32/Glenwiry.p which quarantines wextract.exe

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Using CA Anti-Virus? Beware false positives for win32/Glenwiry.p which quarantines wextract.exe

2008-06-13 12:30:33 by Wayne Schulz in Gear Diary

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An anti-virus definition update released by Computer Associates late yesterday appears to have rendered false positive reports of the win32/Glenwiry.p virus for at least some people. In the process of protecting your computer, the anti-virus may quarantine your C:/WINDOWS/system32/wextract.exe and/or C:/WINDOWS/system32/dllcache/wextract.exe. The problem is that once these files are quarantined, you may encounter problems during a reboot as Windows could prompt you to insert your system disk.

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