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McAfee Virus Scan Reporting False Positive

It has come to my attention that within the last 24 hours the McAfee virus scanner is reporting that Killink CSV contains the Trojan Backdoor-CEP.  I have triple checked the program files and there is no virus or trojan in the Killink CSV program available from the White Peak Software web site.

I have filled a report with McAfee alerting them of the issue.  Unfortunately there is no good workaround to the problem short of not using McAfee, but I do not recommend turning off virus protection for Windows users.  I will provide updates as I get them from McAfee.

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2 Responses to “McAfee Virus Scan Reporting False Positive”

  1. Marcel Says:
    December 24th, 2008 at 9:43 am

    bummer, hope this gets resolved for you!

  2. Craig Stuntz Says:
    December 26th, 2008 at 9:53 am

    You may not recommend turning off McAfee, but I will. It will *guarantee* harm to your productivity, whereas not using it only *risks* harm to your productivity. We use AVG at work, which is occasionally annoying, but nowhere near as productivity-crushing as McAfee or Norton. I don’t use A/V software at all when not required to; I simply avoid running stuff sent in e-mail, etc.