Everyone,

We have two threads going, please continue using this one so we can keep
track.  Continue to report what you are experiencing and the AV team will
work with your information then report back to you as soon as we have
answers.

Thank you!

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Stefanie Ploof
CIT Client Services
CALS Information Technology Office
University of Vermont, Burlington

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, John Cooley wrote:

> The problem is the new version of Symantec.
>
> I have been running the older version 10.0.2.2020. All was fine until I
> started downloading the latest version - 10.1.0.401 Symantec immediately
> nailed it as suspect.
>
> So I guess I will not have my folks download the new version until this
> gets fixed.  Keep us posted....
>
> John cooley
>
>
> At 08:34 AM 6/12/2006, you wrote:
> >My home machine found a couple of files that contained Trojan.Dropper -- older
> >versions of Symantec!!
> >
> >I just opened my folder where I keep old versions of Symantec and yes, it said
> >they were contaminted with Trojan.Dropper again.  This was
> >sav10_0_2_2001-unmanaged.exe and sav10_0_2_2001-managed.exe.
> >
> >So the question is, is there really a virus in those files or is it a problem
> >with the definition files (6/11/06 rev. 6)?
> >
> >On 6/12/2006 8:20 AM Larry Kost wrote the following:
> > > In the process of updating Norton Anti-Virus a couple of folks over here
> > > have been notified that something called Trojan.Dropper was detected and
> > > cleaned by deletion.  I don't know that these are related but it did
> > > happen twice.  One of these people said that a later scan found it
> > > again.  I looked on line and Symantec recommends starting in Safe Mode
> > > and doing a scan (also with System Restore turned off).  Is this the
> > > best advice or is there something else to do?
> > >
> > > Larry Kost
> >
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