- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- October 11th, 2010
WinPatrol Developer Says McAfee False Positive Affected His Business
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- July 16th, 2010
AVG Improperly Detects Threat in Google's reCAPTCHA
False alerts triggered on very popular websites
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- April 22nd, 2010
McAfee's False Positive Incident Exploited to Infect Users
Related search results poisoned with malicious links
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- April 22nd, 2010
McAfee Definitions Update Crashes Millions of Computers
svchost.exe tagged as malicious on Win XP SP3 systems
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- March 22nd, 2010
Bogus BitDefender Update Crashes Computers
Hundreds of binary files erroneously added to quarantine
- Security
- By Marius Oiaga
- January 26th, 2010
Kaspersky Says Google Spreads Malware, but Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar Is a False Positive
Security company hurts legitimate websites and its own users
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- June 10th, 2009
McAfee Releases Buggy Patch for VirusScan Enterprise
Customers report unbootable computers after deployment
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- December 20th, 2008
Anti-virus Misdiagnosis Can Hurt Legitimate Businesses
As an online flower delivery service was forced to discover
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- November 15th, 2008
AVG Tags Adobe Flash Player as Malware
Only days after bogus definitions caused the removal of a vital Windows component
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- November 12th, 2008
AVG Faulty Update Renders Computers Unbootable
A bogus definitions file wrongfully tagged a vital Windows component as malware
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- October 22nd, 2008
McAfee Faulty Definitions Update Quarantine Vista Components
Windows Vista console IME was detected as PWS-LegMir
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- October 17th, 2008
AVG Detects ZoneAlarm as Trojan
A faulty definition update caused AVG anti-virus to block and quarantine the ZoneAlarm firewall
- Incidents
- By Lucian Constantin
- September 9th, 2008
Trend Micro Antivirus Definitions Crash Computers
Flawed malware definitions released by Trend Micro crippled users' computers
- Windows
- By Marius Oiaga
- December 21st, 2007
Kaspersky False Positives Quarantine or Kill Windows Explorer in Windows Vista
And Windows XP