Full Disclosure: Re: AV companies better hire good lawyers soon.

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:03:59 CDT, Frank Knobbe said:

> Alternatively, software manufacturers can add their applications into AV
> exclusion lists upon installation of their products. Applications
> already have to "register" with the operating systems. Why not make it
> register with the AV software if the software is prone to false
> positives? Or at least advice the end-user of such recommended manual
> step during installation.
Works great until the viruses start registering themselves when they
install themselves (you know, the same stuff that already turns off
firewalls and so on...)

Putting up a dialog box that has to be user-clicked would help, but
I don't think that Joe Sixpack would put up with it....

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