{"id":329,"date":"2006-02-16T00:07:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T17:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=329"},"modified":"2006-02-16T00:07:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T17:07:27","slug":"microsoft-flagged-symantec-software-as-spyware-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/microsoft-flagged-symantec-software-as-spyware-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft flagged Symantec software as spyware &#8211; CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Microsoft+flagged+Symantec+software+as+spyware\/2100-1002_3-6038852.html?tag=alert\">Microsoft flagged Symantec software as spyware | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has corrected a mistake in its anti-spyware product that flagged some Symantec security tools as malicious software.<\/p>\n<p>The problem occurred after Microsoft pushed out an update for Windows AntiSpyware last Thursday night. The updated software identified a Windows registry key set by the Symantec products as belonging to password stealing malicious software known as Bancos, Microsoft and Symantec said in a joint statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On detection of the registry keys, Windows AntiSpyware alerted the user and suggested deletion of the keys. &#8220;The deletion of these registry keys will cause all versions of the SAV (Symantec AntiVirus) and SCS (Symantec Client Security) software to stop operating correctly,&#8221; Microsoft and Symantec said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft flagged Symantec software as spyware | CNET News.com For info click on above link Microsoft has corrected a mistake in its anti-spyware product that flagged some Symantec security tools as malicious software. The problem occurred after Microsoft pushed out an update for Windows AntiSpyware last Thursday night. The updated software identified a Windows registry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-spyware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}