David Bates for President!

I would like to take this opportunity to enter my name into the hat for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States!
My inaugural campaign is the following video:

*–Edit–* I had to take out the movie as it was messing up the website.
If you would like to watch the video click here
Just kidding but with the current situation we need someone to step up to the plate and blow the current nominees out of the water.

Thanks for reading
David Bates

Trend Flags Adobe Reader 9 as Virus

Today my boss asked me to look at his system as he believes that Adobe has infected his system with a virus.
I take a look and sure enough everytime I tried to download Adobe Reader 9 our antivirus software flagged it as PAK_Generic.001 and that it was unable to clean it.

I thought surely Adobe hasn’t been hacked. So I got on the horn to our admin that deals directly with Trend (our antivirus provider). and after several hours I recieved the following message:

Update from AV team:
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We have analyzed the file getPlus_reg.exe (15,472 bytes) which can be downloaded from the following URL was verified this to be non malicious:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

This is a legitimate file that belongs to Adobe Systems Incorporate. And since this file has been falsely detected by our Intellitrap pattern as PAK_Generic.001, we will be modifying our pattern files to undetect this sample.

We will inform you right away once the pattern is available for release and ready for download.

You will receive a notification containing the CPR version where the patterns related to this case is included.
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Regards,
Name not included for identity reasons.

So it would seem that Trend is flagging Adobe Reader 9 as a virus and hopefully they will update there patterns soon.

Thanks
David Bates

The Funniest Father’s Day Ad You Will See Today

Browsing Digg.com today I found this little gem.
This has got to be the best Father’s day ad I have seen yet.
It may take a minute to figure out just check out the logo on the bottome right.

This was not how my son came along, I just thought the ad was hillarious.

Thanks for reading
David Bates

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