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Anti-Virus Bug Briefly Identified Windows Explorer as Malware

Posted by Zonk on from the err-oops-pay-no-attention-to-your-OS dept.

SJ2000 writes "Windows Explorer was quarantined last week by Kaspersky Lab's antivirus software after being falsely identified as malicious code. The security company's systems had decided that a virus called Huhk-C was present in the explorer.exe file, leading to its confinement or, in some cases, deletion. The bug was only live in the wild for two hours, and ended up affecting just one corporate customer and a handful of home users."

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  1. Not as slow as yesterday by strcpy(NULL,... · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yesterday, we read about a dork playing jingle bells by hitting his video card fan. This story is an improvement.

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  2. Re:O rly? by Matt867 · · Score: 2, Informative

    "I use IE7 (due to policies and ) at work and FF at home. Why am I stupid ?" For starters your sentence should have been typed like this: "I use IE7 (due to job-related policies) at work and FF at home. Why am I stupid?"