Users of Google’s Chrome browser face a inconvenient road back to a working program after Microsoft’s Security Essentials (MSE) started flagging the software as malware on Friday. In advance of an update, Google’s advice to users is to first update Security Essentials, ensuring that it is running virus signature version…
Microsoft falsely labels Chrome as malware
Google has released a new version of Chrome after Microsoft’s antivirus software flagged the browser as malware and removed it from about 3,000 people’s computers on Friday. Microsoft apologized for the problem and updated its virus definition file to correct the false-positive problem, according to a post from Ryan Naraine…
Microsoft Antivirus Flags Google Chrome as Malware
An estimated 3,000 PC owners who use Google Chrome to surf the Internet were unable to access (or in some cases, locate) the browser thanks to an error in Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus software that flagged Chrome as malware. On Friday afternoon, a post to the Microsoft Malware Protection…
Microsoft Identifies Google Chrome as Malware
The browser was automatically deleted from Security Essentials and Forefront users’ PCs. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
Microsoft Anti-Malware Tool Mistakenly Snuffs Google Chrome
Google Chrome is not a password-stealing trojan Microsoft’s Security Essentials anti-malware tool has mistakenly identified Google Chrome as a password-pilfering trojan — and actually removed the browser from many users’ machines — but a fix for this rather amusing false positive is now available. In an email sent to Wired,…
Microsoft security update treats Chrome as malware
Redmond releases same-day correction, but not before Windows Security purges Chrome from user systems Follow @tsamson_IW Microsoft issued today an update to its security software that wrongly identified Google Chrome as malware and purged it from users’ systems accordingly. The Redmond giant has since fixed the mistake, but it has…
(1) HIGH: Google Chrome Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Category: Widely Deployed Software Affected: Google Chrome prior to 14.0.835.163 View full post on @RISK: The Consensus Security Alert View full post on National Cyber Security
Adobe Tricks Users into Downloading, Installing Google Chrome
It might be common, but that doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to wail against it – especially since I was not familiar with this particular case. As it turns out, several of Adobe products’ download pages have opt-out checkboxes to also install Google Chrome. This was spyware-like behaviour when Apple…
Google Goes Native for Chrome 14
Google is out with a new version of the Chrome browser fixing at least 32 vulnerabilties. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security Gregory Evans | LinkedIn Interview With Gregory Evans Gregory Evans Security Expert Gregory Evans on Cyber Crime
Google Chrome Security Updates, (Sun, Sep 18th)
Google Chrome has been updated to 14.0.835.163 for all platforms. This update fixes 15 high-risk vulnerability, ten medium, and seven low (CVEs included in release notes). [1] http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/09/stable-channel-update_16.html ———– Guy Bruneau IPSS Inc. gbruneau at isc dot sans dot edu Community SANS SEC 503 coming to Ottawa Sep 2011…
