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ALERT: False positive affecting Spyware Doctor

It seems that Spyware Doctor was erroneously reporting Zlob infections on computers, and killing Norton Internet Security in the process. Reported here:

http://www.temerc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6092

Also reported on the Spyware Doctor forums:
http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?p=195342#post195342
http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54603

Symantec ain't gonna be happy...

Published Fri, Nov 14 2008 8:19 by sandi

Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet

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# re: ALERT: False positive affecting Spyware Doctor

Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:25 PM by TeMerc

Thanks for the link to Sandi and I'm going to add the other links to my thread as well.

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