Google Falsely Flagged as Malware by Microsoft

The world’s most popular search engine was falsely identified by Microsoft as malware for four hours on Valentine’s Day due to a faulty software security update, leaving many frustrated Internet Explorer users unable to access Google. The false positive affected searchers in the U.S., Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and…

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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…

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