Among the questions and comments on the Google Chrome support forums this morning are several complaints about Microsoft Security Essentials detecting Chrome as a Zbot variant and removing it from the…
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Users of Google’s Chrome browser are in an uproar after antivirus software from Microsoft classified it as virulent piece of malware that should be deleted immediately.…
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Microsoft issued today an update to its security software that wrongly identified Google Chrome as malware and purged it from users’ systems accordingly.
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Mozilla released Firefox version 7.0.1 today, for both the desktop and mobile browsers, and followed up shortly with a support article regarding the handling of Add-ons. A workaround is available and Mozilla is working on an update for Firefox. One of our readers, Dave, submitted this:
From Mozilla:
Weve identified an issue in which some users may have one or more of their add-ons hidden after upgrading to the latest Firefox version, affecting both desktop and mobile. These add-ons and their data are still intact and havent actually been removed. We paused new updates to Firefox to minimize the potential impact on users and will soon release an update to fix this issue and ensure all your add-ons are visible and usable.
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Microsoft’s Security Essentials falsely reports Google Chrome as being a password stealing trojan. Google talks about the problem here, as well as Microsoft commenting on it here. The trojan that Chrome is being flagged as is the Win32/Zbot password stealing trojan. The definition number that has presented the issue is version 1.113.631.0, with users reporting that previous versions did not trigger on Chrome.
More to come…..
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