Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

False Mac virus freaks out users

Opinion
May 11, 20051 min

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Poor Mac users – they’re just not used to virus alerts. Therefore, those running Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh were considerably freaked out last week when the software told them they were infected with the malware Hacktool.Underhand.

According to The Register: “The bogus warnings were frequently accompanied by system crashes on machines running Mac OS X.”

Well, maybe that was the wrong quote to use as it gave away the punch line. See, Norton somehow released a “rogue virus definition update” that triggered the false positive on those running OS X.

You gotta love Macs. Even when they get a “virus” it’s a false alarm.

Via The Register