More Symantec virus funs - backdoor.ranky

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On upgrading one of the clients to v9 this morning it complained that it had bloodhound.packed in a file. I eventually worked out how to submit this to Symantec and got a message on submission that it could take upto 2 weeks before I got a reply - VERY scary! As it turned out, within 10 seconds I had an email saying that the file was detected as backdoor.ranky and that I should download new updates. I did this and sure enough it detected the file as the backdoor.ranky. What bugs me is that backdoor.ranky has been around since the begininning of July, so the file (that was running on startup should have been detected since July. That and the new defs that are being downloaded every day should detect it with the correct name.
grrrrrr

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