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This happened to a site I managed a while ago. The cause was a comment a user posted that was flagged as a "batch virus". The content of the comment was all tex
by phoboslab 10y ago
This happened to a site I managed a while ago. The cause was a comment a user posted that was flagged as a "batch virus". The content of the comment was all text, along the lines of
@echo off
echo "Speeding up your PC!"
delete c:\Windows\system32\
Thanks Norton!
- deanstag 10y agoThanks OP. Norton will blacklist HN again!
- gnu8 10y agoNorton probably blacklisted HN for this comment because it infringes on their intellectual property, not merely because it is potentially destructive code. In other words, it duplicates the functionality of some of their products and they don't appreciate their trade secrets being exposed this way.
- hellofunk 10y agoI was going through some old patent applications from 2015 and found this exact code snippet in Pat. #482739HG by one of Norton's subsidiary companies.