Norton mistook the NASA software for malicious code

The virus identification upgrade released on July 15 has caused Symantec's Norton Antivirus software to confuse two open-source software as adware (adware).

The two software Norton Norton was mistaken for were Filezilla's open source FTP software and NASA World Wind open source virtual reconstruction software. Norton Antivirus mistook two of these Adware-Cpush adware.

Just a day later Symantec re-released the virus identification update to fix the problem.

The mistake of recognizing legitimate software is malicious code is a frequent error with malicious software according to the definition of identity. According to SANS Institute, the main cause of this situation is the pressure on security companies to continuously release malicious code identifiers as soon as possible. Sometimes the testing process is ignored.

Sometimes it happens that hackers create a string of malicious code that contains the same identity as the safe files that are in the identity list of the anti-malware software. This solution has helped many malicious code spread strongly causing great damage on a wide range. However, this seems to be just a theory, no lines of malicious code are available for this function.

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