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Valentine's Day is for lovers, as the saying goes, and Microsoft spent the day showing Google just how much it cares. A faulty security update pushed out alongside several other patches yesterday caused Internet Explorer to incorrectly flag Google.com -- yep, the most visited website in the universe and the homepage of scads of users -- as being a severe threat called Exploit:JS/Blacole.BW. Oops!
As you might expect, the Internet was quickly ablaze with a virtual horde all asking the same penetrating question: WTF? No, Google wasn't serving up malware. It turns out that the culprit was bad code in updates for Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Security Essentials, ZDNet explains.
Fortunately, Microsoft squashed the bug fairly quickly; by the end of the day yesterday, new updates were pushed out to fix the problem. It makes you wonder just what the hell kind of testing goes on over in Redmond, though -- especially since Microsoft AV products just went on a Google Chrome-deleting splurge last September when another false positive mistakenly identified the browser as the ZeuS Trojan.
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Vlad from Kharkov
February 17, 2012 at 6:52am
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livebriand
February 15, 2012 at 9:28pm
Why are there so many companies out there that want people to hate them... Apple blackmailing asus (ok, I won't be buying any apple products then, and I was previously considering getting an ipod touch), Hotmail going down last night from the main web interface(I'm considering switching to gmail now), and microsoft repeatedly flagging google stuff as malicious with their security programs... Maybe I'll be switching to avast AV then. /rant
I haven't actually seen this bug in action though, nor the previous one with chrome.
Bullwinkle J Moose
February 15, 2012 at 2:31pm
Simple Fix...
Just block ALL Microsoft Malware and Spyware from your networks
Security Essentials is Both Malware AND Spyware!
It opens a back door into your Operating System that cannot be closed with any software firewall that we can find
We did our testing on XP-SP3 Spyware Platform with all the MS Critical Malware Updates installed
After blocking ALL incoming and outgoing data in the firewall. Security Essentials Completely Updates from the Internet just fine while we try to block it in the firewall
In fact, the firewall never gives you a warning of any kind!
To have a piece of Malware like Security Essentials opening Back doors into your Operating System without warning is something Terrorists do!
To then warn you that Everybody Else is Malware and Spyware "Except Microsoft" is a Monopoly of Extortion, Terrorism and Slavery
OCCUPY THE NET!
BAN ALL MICROSOFT PRODUCTS NOW!
Don't listen to the THOUSANDS of people saying I'm the loon with the tinfoil hat!
They are not your friends!
Just try it for yourself and understand how big this problem really is before you listen to those who would do this to you
Bullwinkle J Moose
February 16, 2012 at 1:44pm
Well you certainly won't find the problems unless you try it
That's what security EXPERTS do!
But, there are a lot of people on this site who never try any of the tests I've outlined
They would rather dictate reality based on what they WANT to believe
Maybe you should listen to them...
anc51699
February 15, 2012 at 9:26pm
I just tried it for myself w/NIS 2012, and it couldn't update...
Sorry, but I'm one of those thousands
RUSENSITIVESWEETNESS
February 15, 2012 at 2:14pm
Google is a severe, exploitative threat. Just not the way Microsoft AV meant it.
win7fanboi
February 15, 2012 at 12:32pm
Yea if 'shit' happens repeatedly its kinda suspicious. I bet if google had a bug where it redirected searches for hotmail to gmail page congress would beg (fine) google for millions.
Raswan
February 15, 2012 at 2:14pm
+1. Microsoft has been acting especially hostile-like toward Google over the last year. I am at least 50% convinced this "accident" was part of a long-term campaign to make make life difficult for google, though in reality the only ones that look stupid are the people at MS.
AntonioGarrison
February 15, 2012 at 12:20pm
I think these stories are funny. I just say "Shit happens, u mad bro?"
