[BC] Microsoft AntiSpyware kills Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition

[Barry Mishkind]

At 08:55 AM 2/12/2006, Sid Schweiger wrote
>Reposted from the Entercom Engineering remailer system:
>
>According to a story over at Washingtonpost.com, the latest definitions
>file for Microsoft's Anti-Spyware beta flags Symantec's Norton Antivirus
>products as a password-stealing trojan and prompts users to delete
>portions of the program.

This came from the head of an IT department.

"It is curious that there is not one comment on the Symantec or MS
website about this issue that I can find. If this were very common as
suggested why can I not find any comments on these sites?

I really do not want to be in the situation of defending Microsoft.
Symantec makes a better product. I do not want to see Microsoft succeed
in competing with Symantec, as it will be one more nail in the free
market coffin. But I can't write an article on what I cannot prove.

P.S. I am running the Symantec corporate edition with the MS Anti
spyware. My logs say that I had definitions of 5805 (time-stamped
2/10/06, >7:15) prior to today, as my last update was Friday. These
definitions would have been running since my update Friday as I have not
been on the internet since Friday at 1:30 PM when I traveled back home
from Show Low. I ran this computer system all day Saturday without
internet access and would have scanned Saturday at 2:00 AM according to
my logs with that very definition. Sorry but I have no issues and no
proof yet."