Tag: Symantec

  • Famous for a day…

    …well, in the anti virus blogging world anyway. Last Wednesday morning, I noticed my Norton Anti Virus software blocking JavaScript on quite a lot of reputable websites. Deciding these sites were almost certainly not all compromised, I wrote a post about it, suggesting that it was a false-positive. Throughout the morning I noticed (thanks to […]

  • “HTTP Acrobat PDF Suspicious File Download” – False Positives?

    Note: There is now a potential solution for this – see the bottom of the post. Today when browsing the web, I started to get notifications from Norton Antivirus telling me a malicious worm was blocked. I get these occasionally, so thought nothing of it the first time, but they kept coming up, and I […]