false positive in news
'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work
News Speakman said the "much more positive attitude to IT" of these education leavers is good news for business, adding they are "not there to kill things [IT systems]". And it is a cost-related thing in my opinion but that... [03 Mar 2008]
Dell slapped with fraud lawsuit
News Dell is being accused of making false promises to customers to drive sales, according to a lawsuit filed by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo. The court filing accuses Dell and Dell Financial Services of fraud,... [16 May 2007]
Microsoft tags Gmail as a virus
News A Microsoft representative said on Monday: "This was a limited false positive issue with our antivirus protection. The software maker is reviewing its procedures and processes in order to minimise the... [14 Nov 2006]
IE 7 'download frenzy' underway
News However Microsoft investigated the claim and found there was no virus or "any other malicious code" - the alert was the result of a "false positive" by the Avast antivirus scanner. A day after its... [20 Oct 2006]
Barclays customers face web screening
News The system was up and running in full production following a simple and seamless implementation project, and the results have been extremely positive so far in terms of behind the scenes user authentication, fraud... [27 Mar 2006]
Exclusive: The headlines you WON'T see in 2005
News The shipping date has already changed more times than David Beckham's hairstyle - expect at least one more false dawn and heightened speculation throughout 2005. Although recent signs look more positive,... [22 Dec 2004]
McAfee threatened with lawsuit over Trojan error
News Mark Griffiths of Brisbane said he is "not ruling out" filing a lawsuit against McAfee even after the antivirus company released an update last week to its DAT virus definition file that fixes the false... [13 Sep 2004]
The future's Brightmail for MessageLabs customers
News It also offers non-English language filters and signature based filtering which eliminate the false positive rates associated with keyword or Bayesian filters. UK email security firm MessageLabs has... [01 Sep 2004]
Is this the unluckiest spam recipient in Britain?
News Even now, constant monitoring of the filters for false-positive interceptions - where valid emails are deleted because they contain certain keywords - is an ongoing problem. Anybody despairing at the... [15 Jan 2003]
BT mails virus to customers
News You were lax and complacent in not referring the suspicious attachment on to a specialist anti-virus company - and continuing to refer until you had received positive feedback, either that it was a false... [26 Nov 2001]
Symantec cries wolf on Nimda
News In a statement, F-Prot said: "The false positive [alarm] was due to what appears to be a lack of quality assurance on their [Symantec's] part. He added: "There was something in our virus definition set... [15 Nov 2001]
MSN virus not all it seems
News This alert is a False Alarm (False Positive), and should be ignored in this instance only. A spokeswoman for MSN said: "It's a false alert, if you're running Norton... [31 Oct 2001]
Sybase sued for false stock price
News Despite positive earnings last week, Sybase is being sued by stockholders for manipulating its share price. Nasser Mostoufi and Samuel Peck have filed a suit at Delaware Chancery Court accusing officials of selling $6.2m... [20 Jul 1998]
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