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Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers

Posted by samzenpus on from the houston-we-have-a-problem dept.

girlmad writes "Thousands of PCs have been crippled by a faulty update from security vendor Malwarebytes that marked legitimate system files as malware code. The update definition meant Malwarebytes' software treated essential Windows.dll and .exe files as malware, stopping them running and thus knocking IT systems and PCs offline, leaving lots of unhappy users and one firm with 80% of its servers offline."

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  1. Re:Microsoft Security Essentials... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    that is possibly the most biased of all reviews and testing sites as it takes money from the top AV vendors, the part it didn't do well in is zero day stuff, the part of an AV product that matters the least as nothing is reliable enough for zero day (not even the best products). The fact that AV-Test puts such significance on that part of their test really calls their whole process into question.i.e. DON'T trust them.

  2. Re:Really, so explain this: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the "article"

    Disclosure
    Symantec Corporation funded the production of this report, selected the test metrics and list of products to
    include in this report, and supplied some of the test scripts used for the tests.

    Hmm...