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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. Re:windows? a virus? no wai by Entropius · · Score: 0, Redundant

    only the dumb windows users.

  2. Correction by Kazymyr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What do you mean falsely identified?

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    I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet -Stanislaw Lem
  3. bug? by saxoholic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    according to wikipedia, "Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent."

    Sounds like windows to me...

  4. What do you mean... by Taelron · · Score: 0, Redundant

    wrongly? Sounds about right to me...