Microsoft's Antivirus Briefly Flags Google.com As Malicious

tsu doh nimh writes "Computers running Microsoft's antivirus and security software may be flagging google.com — the world's most-visited Web site — as malicious, apparently due to a faulty Valentine's Day security update shipped by Microsoft. For several hours on Tuesday, PC users browsing with Internet Explorer on a machine equipped with Microsoft Security Essentials or Forefront saw warnings that Google.com was serving up a 'severe' threat – Exploit:JS/Blacole.BW — basically that google.com was supposedly infected with a Blackhole exploit kit. The warning prompted users to 'delete' the threat, although accepting the default action appeared to cause no ill result. The episode is more embarrassing than harmful, given that Microsoft is expected to ship antivirus technology with the next version of Windows."

Comments

And here I thought Windows was the real virus...

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't the real virus actually windows?

Aww!

[Cyphase]

Dear Google,

          Happy Valentine's Day!

                    Your valentine,
                              Microsoft

Well, Google did that already to MS..

[Giloo]

Google already flagged MS France as malicious 2 years ago: http://gilouweb.com/bordel/google_truth.png (Ce site risque d'endommager votre ordinateur meaning: this website might harm your computer) So I guess it's only revenge ;)

Re:Well, Google did that already to MS..

[Bogtha]

this website might harm your computer

To be fair, it does host Microsoft software ;)

To be fair

[Reed Solomon]

in Microsoft's eyes, they are the most malicious threat in existence right now.

Oh my god

[SmallFurryCreature]

I just had an image of Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates going down on Larry Page and Sergey Brin (which by the way, google had to guess at being the right answer for being the founder of google) in a nerd love fest...

My eyes! What has been seen cannot be unseen.

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Oh who am I kidding. Fap fap fap fap fap

There is nothing incompetence cannot achieve!

[coder111]

Let's just wait until they block microsoft.com due to some related screwup.

Exploit:JS/Idiots.ASS detected

Delete the threat

[inpher]

So, did anyone manage to delete the threat? Google.com is still running.

Meh, I guess nobody really reads the warning dialogues anymore.

Re:first!

[WrongSizeGlass]

And stranger than that, you are not bonch and your post isn't a criticism of Google claiming that they deserve it and Microsoft is right to label them as malicious. What are the odds!

Perhaps Microsoft was right about the Google homepage on the 14th:
- MS Security Essentials is written by programmers/nerds.
- On the 14th, Google had an animated "Valentine's Day" logo.
- The animated logo was an animated female. Innocent and harmless, but female none the less.
- As usual, nerds (or in this case MS Security Essentials, the product of nerds) had no idea how to react to a female.
- When MS Security Essentials determined that the animated female was holding a valentine it panicked.
- MS Security Essentials protected Windows from Google's trojan horse valentine (metaphorically, of course).

Re:And here I thought Windows was the real virus..

[oakgrove]

I think poking fun at Microsoft Google Apple and the whole lot is for the most part almost always funny. Ever considered removing the giant stick from your ass?