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

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

[mykepredko]

Pretty ironic and makes for great headlines, but this *has* to be a major embarrassment.

Shouldn't Panda's product test organization be fired as a matter of course?

I can't see how this kind of bug got through release testing - shouldn't release testing ensure that the product runs after update?

myke

Re:First intelligent antivirus

[Anonymous Coward]

You might be kidding, but numerous anti-virus companies today are hijacking your search feeds and home pages, while also blocking any other software that might try to do the same - thus protecting their own hijackings.

Re:I just disproved 9/80 antivirus companies... ap

[Anonymous Coward]

How the fuck is it possible you haven't been institutionalized yet?

Re:Reminds me of an old joke

[Anonymous Coward]

If Java got "true" garbage collection, it would wrap itself up, garbage collect itself, and delete itself and all its garbage from the system.