As part of the pact, the bank agreed to comb through each loan file to spot potential errors, a process that the regulators will use to help determine the size of the payouts to homeowners.
The panel concluded that it was possible by looking at the net address of visitors or by simply asking them if they were French and then posting a file called a "cookie" on their computer so Yahoo could spot them next time they visited.
While Live OneCare did manage to spot 100% of the macro viruses it was tested against, it missed some wild viruses, polymorphic programs and file infectors.