Error Detecting Spyware. VNC based programs arent Spyware

[John McDoug]

I want to notice that MA tool detects VNC and VNC based
programs as psyware, when they arent that.

I think microsoft is dewtecting them as spyware cos they
do the same that XP remote control but platform
independent.

And that's market that MS can loose.

So be quiet. Vnc isnt spyware.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

This is not a bug. Microsoft clearly expains this when you
highlight the detected VNC application. I am glad they did this as VNC can
be bundled with spyware, bots, etc. but will create havoc for corporate
users that use it for legitimate desktop admin functions. Hope they allow
filtering of this in final product but will create more headache for
sysadmins.
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[Bill Sanderson]

Your post illustrates one issue with "name-calling."

Microsoft Antispyware allows the user, at their option to remove "theats."

If remote control software such as VNC which can be active with no visual or
other cue to the user is installed on a machine, Microsoft Antispyware will
call that to the attention of the user.

I believe that you'll find both the descriptions and the default resolution
choice appropriate. This issue has been hashed over here several times
since the beta began, in January.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Nuts:

Threats! (My eyes are going, and I'm working via Remote Desktop while
sitting in front of a server. In my world, servers get the oldest cruddiest
monitors left over from old workstations, because, of course, nobody sits in
front of the server and works......)

Anyway--I wasn't complaining about John McDoug's message--just that using
loaded language to talk about this stuff is a problem. Symantec has
recently changed their language from, I think "extended threats" to
"security threats." For VNC, that particular language seems more
appropriate than "spyware" but probably because it is simply less loaded.


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