# Anti virus woes

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/anti-virus-woes/23116>\
**Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\
**Created:** [September 20, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/anti-virus-woes/23116 "2012-09-20T17:47:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/anti-virus-woes/23116/1 "2012-09-20T17:47:07Z")

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Ugh, Sophos did a doozy yesterday afternoon (bout 3pm MDT).

Released an ide for their A/V software that generated a false positive,  
which in turn partially crippled Sophos’ ability to update itself.  
Nice unanticipated project fixing the stragglers.

–  
Stevo

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/anti-virus-woes/23116/2 "2012-09-20T18:26:28Z")

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How do you know that antivirus heuristics are all crap? When you get  
enough “patterns” you start matching everything. Thanks-you Sophos for  
making that obvious for customers.

Good luck (to the Sophos users).  
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