Microsoft Accidentally Identifies Chrome As "Severe Threat"
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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?"vansau said:
Or a rival internet browser that doesn't crawl into its deathbed at the first sign of trouble.RedEyesBlackGamer said:
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.orangeapples said:
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?!
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.Ruwrak said: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?Formica Archonis said:
It "accidentally" replaced Google Searches with Bing and redirected Google.com traffic to al-qaeda.com.Olrod said:
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.
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.
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.
I don't think there is -much- time to test anyway. What was it? 5 new viruses every day or something?Formica Archonis said: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.Ruwrak said: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?Formica Archonis said:
Oh well I only go to sites that are not suspicious anyway x3
...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?"
Still makes me chuckle, I can imagine the meetings in Microsoft HQ:
"So....uh, did we do this on purpose guys?"
If Windows security can't tell the difference between crome an Zeus, how can we expect it to stop viruses?
Holy shiznit, guys. I wasn't going to say anything, but things like this have been popping up in most of the news posts I've read on this site (and, oddly enough, occasionally on RPS as well) lately. I know you're in a hurry to publish more but geez, get a good editor or something.vansau said:
