Norton AntiVirus, erase all deleted wiki as virus



Although it is a world-famous Norton series as anti-virus software, what was wrong with the update on February 28 at the end of last month, the data of Wiki software called "TiddlyWiki" is "W32. Feebs "as a virus, and deleting all data occurred all over the world. It seems that "TiddlyWiki" users who lost data are following one after another.

Details are as follows.
This is the official website. An announcement is on the top page.

TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

The first report in a discussion held in Google Group. Users who have wiped out data are in succession.

I lost all my TiddlyWiki pages - TiddlyWiki | Google Group

It seems that damage was occurring also in Japan.

.shrimp: Removed TiddlyWiki in Norton

Update this morning, Norton AntiVirus and open TiddlyWiki in the browser as usual ...
Suddenly Norton said "I detected" W32 / Feebs ", suddenly deleted TiddlyWiki's HTML completely. Also a backup file. All the other TiddlyWiki that existed (at the timing of opening the folder?).

It is not like I evacuated it, but I do not think that resurrection is possible. Massive damage.
Norton has indicated it "solved" or somewhat.

Hey, which one is a virus, suddenly to delete important files suddenly, hey.
I will discard Norton as soon as possible. I am scared and can not put it.

Currently it seems to have contacted the Norton side to solve the problem, but even with all data erase ......

By the way, in the early days when OfficeScan was launched, the virus was infected by viruses when Windows 95 was still active, and the OfficeScan gently cleansed the virus, but at that time it said to delete "explorer.exe" together I've had a wonderful experience of doing bold things, restarting Windows 95 will make it impossible to start ... ....

in Note, Posted by darkhorse