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From: za kAT on 23 Jun 2010 18:39
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:24:40 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote:

> Bigot Bottoms <BB(a)KKK.invalid> wrote in
> news:tc798hqc8bjk.1gk2sq6tra47g.dlg(a)40tude.net:
>
>> Please don't inform anti virus vendors there may be a false positive.
>>
>
> You can tell these idiots,

Thanks. So it was just the warning here that got you so pissed?

> but they shouldn't need such help. If they hit
> on a file, they should first check it out if they aren't sure, like read
> the code rather than taking the lazy way out.

What should they do in the meantime. Warn people?

> Like this program uses an installer that alerted our heuristics, the
> files contained within the installer are clean. Not...oops this is
> MALWARE...A TROJAN.

How about, "This might contain malware, but just install it anyway, as per
hummingbird directive.

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