Antivirus Vendors Headed for Court

SkiifGeek writes "A showdown between Rising Tech, a Chinese Antivirus vendor, and Kaspersky Lab in a Chinese court could have implications for software vendors that misidentify system files and files from their competitors as being malicious."

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F--- the Chinese Software Company

[tjstork]

Go Kapersky! One look at the trade deficit says that perhaps all Chinese software ought to be blocked.

Don't viruses attack system files though?

[antifoidulus]

Some of the more complex viruses invade various system files(the fact that windows makes it easy for them doesn't help). They modify some of the most basic system calls to the point that the virus becomes difficult, if not impossible to remove without reformatting. So how should anti-virus makers deal with infected system files if they aren't allowed to identify them as being viruses?