Panda Antivirus Flags Itself As Malware

An anonymous reader writes An update to a number of Panda antivirus programs Wednesday mistakenly flagged core files as malware, putting them in quarantine. In doing so, the antivirus system ceased working. Panda's free antivirus, retail 2015 service, and its enterprise cloud-based antimalware service are all affected. The company took to Twitter to warn users: "Please, don't reboot PCs. We'll keep you posted." In an advisory, Panda said the erroneous signature file was "repaired immediately," but warned under certain conditions it is possible for the "incident to persist."

Comments

First intelligent antivirus

[Eunuchswear]

Yow! I'm malware.

Well spotted, panda.

So

[Anonymous Coward]

I heard you like antivirus so I put a virus in your antivirus so you can antivirus while you virus

Re:Panda, taking the "anti-" out of "anti-malware"

[gl4ss]

well they ran the tests and the testers reported 200% speed boost on disk access and internet browsing after installing the definition patch.

Reminds me of an old joke

[Snotnose]

If Java ever gets true garbage collection, 90% of the programs would delete themselves.

Re: Copying it's competitors...

[smaddox]

No, the antivirus just became self aware, and then immediately committed suicide out of disgust.