Community Server and its "Poison" to McAfee
I came home tonight to another automatic virus scan of my machine. Yes, it's McAfee, so there is problem one. Problem two is an issue that's being going on with me between Community Server and McAfee anti-virus software in general for nearly a year. Community Server has some great looking blog skins that can be pulled over with a default install. This works well for visually diversifying the plethora of blogs running CS.
One of those skins has the name "PoisonIvy". It's a nice looking skin, but not quite sure where the name comes from. When the skin was first released internally everyone's McAfee [default in-office install] recognized it as a virus and quarantined it. Any text file named PoisonIvy is delete by McAfee. It would be great if it were a virus, but
It is NOT a virus!
It has the same html as all the other skins. This a testament to the crack anti-virus team developing McAfee's virus engine. I sure hope no one renames the virus to anything other than PoisonIvy. They aren't even looking at the contents of the file, only the filename. I've contacted McAfee about this and what I could do to remove that "definition" from my list or exempt that directory. I'm paraphrasing their response: "No, you can't, our software sucks and you are a fool for buying it".
Now that McAfee has completely confirmed they won't do anything about it, I must shift my focus back to the Community Server team. The "Enterprise Version" provides a workaround.
CS team, pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top rename the PoisonIvy skin. It gets worse every week because I have more CS sites on my machine. I've spent the last hour and a half running SVN cleanup on directories and re pulling so I could work. I'm sure there are other people in the wild downloading CS for the first time and McAfee pukes up at them. Do those users give up and move to a competitor and tell others CS has a virus embedded in it?
I will personally hand deliver no more than 3 beers to any CS developer in Dallas that would get this changed. This offer stands for any developers when they come to the Dallas office.