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Microsoft updates antivirus after falsely labeling Chrome as malware

Jos
By Jos · 14 replies
Oct 4, 2011
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  1. Microsoft has made changes to its Security Essentials, Forefront and Defender software after it falsely identified Google's Chrome browser as a well-known online banking Trojan called Zeus and blocked it…

    Read the whole story
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #1
  2. katoDRAGON

    katoDRAGON TS Rookie

    It's almost like MS did this on purpose
     
    Gaara likes this.
    Oct 4, 2011
    #2
  3. Guest

    Guest

    Why update it? MS Security Essentials is not very far at all from reality.....
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #3
  4. Guest

    Guest

    Well, it is malware for them.
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #4
  5. amstech

    amstech IT Overlord Posts: 1,692   +855

    Well played Microsoft.
    Well played.
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #5
  6. aspleme

    aspleme TS Enthusiast Posts: 56

    I guess browser competition is more serious than I realized...
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #6
  7. Guest

    Guest

    MSE works great for me, (Bing User)...
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #7
  8. Guest

    Guest

    hahah i got this false positive trying to go back to chrome couple days ago. installed it this time with MSE disabled. Glad it finally got fixed anyway.
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #8
  9. treetops

    treetops TS Evangelist Posts: 2,018   +194

    Indeed.
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #9
  10. MilwaukeeMike

    MilwaukeeMike TS Evangelist Posts: 2,829   +1,170

    I wonder what about Chrome tripped the Malware checker in Security Essentials. Google has been known to record a lot of user data after all.
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #10
  11. tw0rld

    tw0rld TS Maniac Posts: 572   +6

    Chrome might not be Malware, but it is definitely Spyware.
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #11
  12. UnknownSky

    UnknownSky TS Enthusiast Posts: 43

    Accidents do happen :D.....
    Or at least that's what they'll say ^_^
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #12
  13. war59312

    war59312 TS Booster Posts: 127   +8

    LOL I bet they wish that 3,000 figure was 30,000,000. ;)
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #13
  14. The5Xfactor

    The5Xfactor TS Rookie Posts: 21

    <quote>Microsoft has made changes to its Security Essentials, Forefront and Defender software after it falsely identified Google's Chrome browser as a well-known online banking Trojan called Zeus and blocked it from users' computers</quote>

    LOL, that's was good 10 minute laugh
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #14
  15. Relic

    Relic TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 1,379   +16

    Haven't had any issues personally, but this is indeed funny.
     
    Oct 4, 2011
    #15

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