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Avira Anti-Virus users may have been faced with an interesting situation yesterday when the product detected one of its components as being a trojan or a piece of spyware.
“We have had a false positive for the Avira file AESCRIPT.DLL which was detected as TR/Spy.463227,” revealed a statement on their sup... |
27 October 2011
06:19 GMT |
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Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1 has been updated in order to resolve a false positive involving Google’s open source browser, Chrome.
At the end of September 2011, MSE 2.1 began incorrectly detecting Chrome as malware, notifying users that they were infected with PWS:Win32/Zbot.
Microsoft Security Es... |
3 October 2011
07:31 GMT |
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The latest virus signature database of ESET's Nod32 Antivirus 4 seems to block out all the images attached to Facebook posts. This morning, my colleagues and I discovered that after the latest updates were made, a warning appeared at the bottom of the screen when visiting Facebook profiles, alerting that a cert... |
19 September 2011
08:04 GMT |
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Sophos customers experienced bogus malware warnings for content served from google-analytics.com yesterday, as a result of a bad definition issued by the security vendor.The company managed to rectify the issue within one hour since the false alarms started popping up, however, it might have taken more time until the... |
11 June 2011
02:08 GMT |
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Avast! antivirus users experienced serious problems last night when the program began detecting infections on nearly all websites due to a bad definitions update.According to Ondrej Vlcek, AVAST Software's chief technology officer, the problem was with the 110411-1 definitions update and affected websites contai... |
12 April 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Samsung has investigated claims that at least two of its laptop models were shipped preloaded with a keylogger and dismissed the incident as the result of an antivirus false positive detection.NetSec Consulting Corp founder Mohamed Hassan reported yesterday that two laptop models from Smasung, namely R525 and R540, c... |
31 March 2011
06:45 GMT |
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Many users of the free ClamWin antivirus scanner were left with severely crippled operating systems after a bogus update caused the program to wrongfully quarantine thousands of clean files.Reports started pouring in earlier today on the official forums, with users complaining that, following scheduled scans, the pro... |
19 November 2010
12:54 GMT |
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Bill Pytlovany, the creator of WinPatrol, blames McAfee for lost customers after the security giant was inexplicably slow in resolving a false positive incident.WinPatrol is a HIPS-type application, which makes use of several behavioral sensors to detect and block potentially malicious software.In order to make its d... |
11 October 2010
10:50 GMT |
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A buggy detection routine caused antivirus products from AVG to improperly tag a script from Google's reCAPTCHA as being infected with a threat called HTML/Framer. The false positive incident prevented AVG from accessing popular websites.The problems started yesterday with users reporting seeing the alert on web... |
16 July 2010
06:42 GMT |
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A false positive (FP) malware detection incident, which affected McAfee customers yesterday, is being exploited by cybercrooks to spread scareware. A black hat search engine optimization (BHSEO) campaign that poisoned search results related to the unfortunate event has been observed.On April 21, 2010, a malware defin... |
22 April 2010
09:43 GMT |
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A malware definitions update pushed by antivirus giant McAfee to its customers yesterday contained a buggy detection routine that caused millions of computers to go into a reboot loop. The severe system instability issue resulted from erroneous blocking of the critical svchost.exe file on computers running Windows XP... |
22 April 2010
04:02 GMT |
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BitDefender customers were affected by a faulty antivirus update, which incorrectly tagged critical system files as malicious, over the weekend. The problem affected 64-bit Windows versions and left computers unable to boot.Beginning Saturday evening, BitDefender's support forum started being flooded with report... |
22 March 2010
05:34 GMT |
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Kaspersky products incorrectly blocked access to legitimate websites reporting that ads from Google AdSense were infected with a Trojan horse labeled Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar. Russian-based antivirus maker Kaspersky managed to shoot itself in the foot and deliver a blow to its credibility and legitimacy as a maker of ... |
26 January 2010
05:01 GMT |
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A service pack-like update for McAfee's VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i, which has been in the making for several months, was pulled from download on June 2, after it caused problems to customers. False positives on some system files, which were detected as W32/Generic.worm.aa and deleted, left computers unbootable. ... |
10 June 2009
04:05 GMT |
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False positives are not only potentially more annoying or damaging to computers than the viruses themselves, but they can also put a dent in the profits of legitimate businesses. The sales of a popular UK online florist shop dropped 50% after electronic communications security giant MessageLabs wrongfully tagged thei... |
20 December 2008
06:38 GMT |
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Users of the popular AVG antivirus product reported on the company's support forum that an Adobe flash component had been detected as a generic password stealing Trojan. This was caused by a faulty definition file that was pushed to users on Friday and followed a similar incident that occurred earlier this week,... |
15 November 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Users of the popular AVG antivirus software had an unpleasant surprise when they were locked outside of the Windows operating system because they accepted a confirmation dialog saying that user32.dll (Windows User API Client DLL) is a Trojan component and needs to be deleted. AVG issued an update to fix the problem a... |
12 November 2008
09:20 GMT |
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The Windows Vista console IME was incorrectly tagged by McAfee's security products as Trojan PWS-LegMir due to a faulty definitions file. The false positive was corrected in a later definitions update.The 5409 DAT files released on October 20, 2008 contained a bad signature that falsely detected a legit Windows ... |
22 October 2008
05:52 GMT |
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People that use the AVG anti-virus, along with the ZoneAlarm firewall, had an unpleasant surprise when AVG suddenly started to block and quarantine Check Point's popular firewall solution. The false positive was caused by a bogus malware definition file update and AVG eventually addressed the issue.This problem ... |
17 October 2008
08:24 GMT |
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The antivirus definitions released by Trend Micro Inc. for several of its products on September 5 caused computers to become unstable or unusable. The definitions falsely identified vital system files on both Windows Vista and Windows XP computers as malware, and added them to quarantine. Upon rebooting, this situati... |
9 September 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Kaspersky has taken a bite out of the core of Windows Vista and Windows XP. Following the release and implementation of faulty signature updates, several versions of the security solutions from the Russian antivirus maker have taken a swing at the heart of Microsoft's Windows client and have managed to take out ... |
21 December 2007
03:06 GMT |
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Remember a couple of days ago I was telling you about how the Britster had failed a drug test? Yes, well, it's all true, and here comes the madness that I was predicting at the time: in a surprise move (joke) Brit is currently blaming the court-ordered urine sample which returned a positive reading last week on ... |
14 November 2007
06:46 GMT |
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