Attention Har-Bal Users: posted by db...

I found this message at the Har-Bal forum, thought it may well be interesting to many of you here:

"If any of you have the latest round of McAfee virus signatures installed you will have realized that McAfee regards HarBal as a virus. Actually it regards the copy protection software we use, Armadillo, as a virus and hence HarBal too. I notified Silicon Realms (Authors of Armadillo) of this issue saying:

"I just found a problem with the latest McAfee virus signatures. If I download your current version and install it McAfee identifies it as
a w32/Gaobot.worm.gen.e virus and immediately deletes it from my system."

Their response was:

"We are aware of the problem and can assure you that there are no viruses in Armadillo or the Armadillo engine that is attached to your protected programs.

We will be contacting McAfee ourselves to resolve this problem.

Until the problem is resolved, the only thing we can suggest is to configure McAfee Anti-Virus to exclude Armadillo from being scanned and to exclude your protected programs as well."

I sincerely appologise if this issue causes grief to any of you. Hopefully McAfee will have new signitures that don't incorrectly identify HarBal as a virus.

Regards,

Paavo."