Microsoft Accidentally Identifies Chrome As "Severe Threat"

[ZephrC]

Wow. The sheer number of people coming in here just to claim that Microsoft minorly inconveniencing a fraction of a percent of Chome users for a tiny amount of time then quickly fixing it and apologizing must somehow be some sort of insane plot to end Google forever is really pathetic.

The first time I was like okay. Haha. Second it was like "Oops, your lame joke got ninja'd."

Twenty times later and now I'm just afraid the Escapist's users are really just a whole hell of a lot stupider than I had previously believed.

 

[orangeapples]

Wow. The sheer number of people coming in here just to claim that Microsoft minorly inconveniencing a fraction of a percent of Chome users for a tiny amount of time then quickly fixing it and apologizing must somehow be some sort of insane plot to end Google forever is really pathetic.

The first time I was like okay. Haha. Second it was like "Oops, your lame joke got ninja'd."

Twenty times later and now I'm just afraid the Escapist's users are really just a whole hell of a lot stupider than I had previously believed.

the quality of our users does seem to have gone down in the recent months...

C'mon now people, accidents happen. Coding is a long process and problems occur. computing is not a perfect system that is free from errors. Compiling code takes a lot of work and not everything will be caught, that's why there are patches and updates to stuff like this. Once upon a time and update for something like this had to be bought from a store, with money and if it screwed something up on YOUR system? good luck because now you have to write all of your data onto a bunch of 3.5 floppy drives and re-install a previous version. now the download happens in the background for free, and if it screws something up they just patch it again. Kids these days don't know how easy they have it...

not everything is a conspiracy, not everything has a deeper meaning. Sometimes and accident is just an accident.

 

[repeating integers]

Twenty times later and now I'm just afraid the Escapist's users are really just a whole hell of a lot stupider than I had previously believed.

You actually ever believed we were intelligent?

 

[funguy2121]

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Has anyone said yet "they're just jealous because chrome is an actually decent browser, and Internet Explorer hasn't been relevant for a decade?"

 

[funguy2121]

scha·den·freu·de
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satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

By the way, under those conditions, why didn't it notice Firefox, Opera or Exploder?

I'm sure that it accidentally will if Firefox ever created a rival search engine. It really confuses their security. Especially if that search engine is popular.

Or a rival internet browser that doesn't crawl into its deathbed at the first sign of trouble.

 

[mattaui]

I use MSE on five computers and didn't have any problems on any of them, all running Chrome. 3000 users would be a lot, except when you're talking about the number of people who use Chrome and also use Windows.

 

[Knife-28]

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Gamers, heck, people will(and tend to) hate whatever is popular, they hate Halo, the hate COD, they hate Microsoft ect ect. It's annoying as he'll, but there's no way it's going going away any time soon.
That said, this does honestly look like a technical stuff up, I mean, if I was Microsoft, and was to use the software to 'accidentally' delete a program I didn't like off my users computers, I would honestly drag the whole thing out for a bit, not fix it straight away.Honestly guys, Microsoft isn't the hell-bent, demonic anti-crist that people paint it to be, their the same (basically) as another company of their type.

Also, off topic a bit here, but captcha, if your gonna make me type a word, then give me the bloody word!
EDIT: I just realised I typed this whole thing out in an IPod, a bloody iPod! How hardcore is that?!

 

[Formica Archonis]

Happens in the industry. Not as vile a sin as the time McAfee [http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/mcafee-update-breaks-windows-xp-systems-6594] decided the Windows service host (a critical part of Windows) was a threat and deleted that! When three BSODs-on-boot came in to my shop in as many hours, I got rather suspicious!

Actually... I think that happened to me once. How else would one lose a win32.sys registry file when one is 14 years old and -NOT- doing clicky click in the registers?

It's possible. My experiences with antivirus programs has made me suspicious of setting them so they autokill suspicious objects. With daily updates it's obvious most of them are not tested on anything but a few token systems before release.

 

[Noko]

Reminds me of the time google flagged everything as bad.

 

[Something Amyss]

Yeeeah, riiight. A mistaaake.

Did it also "accidentally" re-install IE 7 to the computers as well?

It "accidentally" replaced Google Searches with Bing and redirected Google.com traffic to al-qaeda.com.

 

[duchaked]

It was also revealed that Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection was nuking Chrome from orbit

hahahaha nice nice

this wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Google is more or less killing Bing does it?? lol

 

[The Lugz]

my honest reaction to this is simply 'sigh' it's increasingly obvious these days programmers are just phoning it in and waiting for the clock to tick 5
utterly silly bugs like this are far too commonplace on these flagship operating systems

it takes 30 seconds to check each browser, 30.
it's things like this that make me wonder if company's just program with algorithms and assume things are perfect

Nvidia are becoming notorious for this, they recently released a driver for one of their cards that refused to shut down in a thermal threshold situation.. thus frying several thousand pounds worth of gpu's..

what a mess.

at-least it wasn't un-installing windows, i guess we should be thankful of that.

 

[Isaac The Grape]

For the record, ZeuS is not a virus. It is a highly complex Trojan. By itself it does nothing, but it can carry a payload containing anything. The things that make ZeuS interesting are; that it was commercially made by a group aiming to profit from the sale or rent of the malware, that it is speculated to have been developed in the Ukraine or Estonia, and that it is leased out to individuals wanting to use the impressive penetration ability of the malware through Command & Control Servers or C&CSVRs which allow their users to send instructions to the ZeuS malware that is allocated to that server.

 

[Ruwrak]

Happens in the industry. Not as vile a sin as the time McAfee [http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/mcafee-update-breaks-windows-xp-systems-6594] decided the Windows service host (a critical part of Windows) was a threat and deleted that! When three BSODs-on-boot came in to my shop in as many hours, I got rather suspicious!

Actually... I think that happened to me once. How else would one lose a win32.sys registry file when one is 14 years old and -NOT- doing clicky click in the registers?

It's possible. My experiences with antivirus programs has made me suspicious of setting them so they autokill suspicious objects. With daily updates it's obvious most of them are not tested on anything but a few token systems before release.

I don't think there is -much- time to test anyway. What was it? 5 new viruses every day or something?
Oh well I only go to sites that are not suspicious anyway x3

 

[aashell13]

Microsoft fail. still, not as bad as the BitDefender "update" that rendered my computer unbootable last spring...

 

[Mark Flanagan]

...and this is why I use Opera.

Still makes me chuckle, I can imagine the meetings in Microsoft HQ:

"So....uh, did we do this on purpose guys?"

 

[matesds]

One of things M$ done right, plex chrome isn't very secure.... FireFox/IceCat/IceWeasel and Opera are better and faster anyway, really.

 

[Verdilian]

Wow. That was a fit of incompetence on their part. Oh well, at least this was straightened out. Though as pointed out, what Microsoft did pales in comparison to what certain virus scanners did in the past.

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

Sure. An "accident". I´ll accidentally not install Internet Explorer, lol.