Henri Cook

22 May, 2009

Spotify is a virus (or so McAfee Says…)

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings| It's Wrong.| Sillyness| Technical Support

I was surprised this morning to find that McAfee ‘On Access Scan’ had deleted my copy of Spotify overnight saying that it was an example of W32 IRCbot.gen.z – thanks Mcafee, you’re now disabled.

This of course raises an interesting question – does Spotify connect to IRC somewhere? What other reason could McAfee have for detecting it as a chat bot in this way?

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1 | Ulan Bator

May 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 am

McAfee sees some piece of code that “reminds” them about a virus. And somebody bangs the alarm without thinking twice about it. I wonder if Spotify can sue them for the damages this has caused.

(Point being: There are probably a couple of million Spotify users NOT getting a virus detect…)

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