Thursday, December 2, 2010

Malware Description IS Very Poor

This is the first sentence of two that Symantec has given in its summary for the malware:

Trojan.ADH is a detection technology designed to detect entirely new malware threats without traditional signatures.

My initial thought was that this malware was using some new detection technology, but then after re-reading I realized it was being detected by technology being utilized by Symantec. Here is my simple modification to that sentence:

Trojan.ADH was detected by technology designed to detect entirely new malware threats without traditional signatures.

That would be the bare minimum change needed. A slightly different wording with another improvement would be:

Trojan.ADH has been detected by technology designed to identify entirely new malware threats without traditional signatures.

And this is the final most effecient revision:

Trojan.ADH was detected by technology designed to find entirely new malware threats without traditional signatures.

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As an additional comment I would to add my following observation. I did not see an explanation for what ADH meant, but am guessing that it stands for Automatic Detection Heuristic. When I was checking the spelling for heuristic by type in my toolbars search box (with search suggestions turned ON) I saw heuristic.adh listed that might indicate that I might be corrent in this assumption.

in reference to: Trojan.ADH | Symantec (view on Google Sidewiki)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

YouTube Help Page - Accurate, but I wish...

YouTube Help Page - Accurate, but I wish they would add another choice from the existing options to replace the current list so that the user to select remove it entirely.

I like that the page shows me how current it is with the dimmed text for the last time it was updated and in this case it shows the date of 10/9/2010.

I think that Google is making a valiant effort to put back the You in YouTube because it shows and not just in words, but by actions. Which can be seen from looking at their known issues page.

in reference to: The playlist bar : Learn More - YouTube Help (view on Google Sidewiki)