McAfee False Positive

McAfee DAT file 4715 falsely identified legitimate, non-infected files as being infected with the W95/CTX virus. The faulty DAT file was released on Friday, March 10th. The corrected DAT, 4716, was released several hours later on the same date. Depending on the user's configuration of VirusScan, the falsely identified files may have been either quarantined or deleted. If deleted, the files should be restored from either a backup or a rollback point in System Restore. Quarantined files can be restored to their original locations by selecting "Restore" from the "Manage Quarantined Files" window. McAfee has provided some details of the false positive in DAT 4715, including a partial list of some files that may have been erroneously targeted by the scanner.