CA in Windows FP

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Sep 4, 2006

eTrust identifies critical file as virus.

A mistake at CA caused some trouble over the weekend, as its eTrust products started identifying part of the Windows local authentication system in Windows 2003 Server as infected with a virus called 'lassrv.b'. Clean copies of lsass.exe, a popular target for viruses, were blocked by the software, and even deleted by some users, causing some nasty problems.

The update causing the FP, Vet DAT signature 30.3.3054, was released in the early hours of Friday morning US time, and was fixed by an update issued before 9:30AM the same day. CA has released some instructions on recovering a system which has lost or blocked the file, here. Read the SANS announcement of the problem here.

Posted on 4 September 2006 by Virus Bulletin

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