I also had problems this weekend with McAfee deleting known, long-installed programs with the same Generic BackDoor.dr claims, but it has not touched my AG install yet.
Brian Tieman wrote: > My virus checker McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 just deleted all my > copies of the AGTk install packages. The checker is claiming a virus > detected as "GenericBackDoor.dr" was detected and so deleted the files. > > I've had these files for months now and am reasonably certain there are > no true viruses in them (at least I hope there aren't--I installed them > in a lot of places!). I'm guessing my checker just updated itself with > a new signature file which contained something found in the > AGKt-2.3-Py-2.3.exe file it didn't like. > > Anyone else see this? The virus scanner is controlled by IT and I can't > turn it off--is there a work around for this problem? Anyone think I > truely do have a virus? > > Thanks for the input! > > Brian Tieman > Argonne National Laboratory -- Andrew Patrick, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Information Security Group, Institute for Information Technology National Research Council (NRC), Ottawa, Canada E-mail: [email protected] WWW - NRC: http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca WWW - Personal: http://www.andrewpatrick.ca Phone: (613) 991-3374 Fax: (613) 952-7151 Cell/SMS: (613) 277-9211
