Microsoft's Antivirus Briefly Flags Google.com As Malicious 123
tsu doh nimh writes "Computers running Microsoft's antivirus and security software may be flagging google.com — the world's most-visited Web site — as malicious, apparently due to a faulty Valentine's Day security update shipped by Microsoft. For several hours on Tuesday, PC users browsing with Internet Explorer on a machine equipped with Microsoft Security Essentials or Forefront saw warnings that Google.com was serving up a 'severe' threat – Exploit:JS/Blacole.BW — basically that google.com was supposedly infected with a Blackhole exploit kit. The warning prompted users to 'delete' the threat, although accepting the default action appeared to cause no ill result. The episode is more embarrassing than harmful, given that Microsoft is expected to ship antivirus technology with the next version of Windows."
And here I thought Windows was the real virus... (Score:4, Funny)
Isn't the real virus actually windows?
They may know... (Score:3, Funny)
...something the world does not know !
Aww! (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Google,
Happy Valentine's Day!
Your valentine,
Microsoft
Well, Google did that already to MS.. (Score:5, Funny)
To be fair (Score:5, Funny)
in Microsoft's eyes, they are the most malicious threat in existence right now.
Re:And here I thought Windows was the real virus.. (Score:2, Funny)
Same as Windows don't know how to spot a threat!
Oh my god (Score:5, Funny)
I just had an image of Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates going down on Larry Page and Sergey Brin (which by the way, google had to guess at being the right answer for being the founder of google) in a nerd love fest...
My eyes! What has been seen cannot be unseen.
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Oh who am I kidding. Fap fap fap fap fap
Re:You can tell it was a mistake (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdot: Where Anonymous Cowards strut around being smug and hip by blaming the users of Apple products of being smug and hip
There is nothing incompetence cannot achieve! (Score:5, Funny)
Exploit:JS/Idiots.ASS detected
I think (Score:3, Funny)
Microsoft simply confused Valentines Day with April Fools Day
Icing on the cake (Score:3, Funny)
Would have been absolute gold if the message that came up was something along the lines of:
"We're sorry but Google.com has been identified as a threat to Microsoft *cough* *cough*, I mean your computer. We suggest you fix this by going to Bing.com. Would you like us to make Bing your homepage and redirect all future request for Google to Bing instead?"
[Yes] [OK]
Delete the threat (Score:5, Funny)
Meh, I guess nobody really reads the warning dialogues anymore.
Re:Well, Google did that already to MS.. (Score:5, Funny)
To be fair, it does host Microsoft software ;)
Re:first! (Score:5, Funny)
And stranger than that, you are not bonch and your post isn't a criticism of Google claiming that they deserve it and Microsoft is right to label them as malicious. What are the odds!
Perhaps Microsoft was right about the Google homepage on the 14th:
- MS Security Essentials is written by programmers/nerds.
- On the 14th, Google had an animated "Valentine's Day" logo.
- The animated logo was an animated female. Innocent and harmless, but female none the less.
- As usual, nerds (or in this case MS Security Essentials, the product of nerds) had no idea how to react to a female.
- When MS Security Essentials determined that the animated female was holding a valentine it panicked.
- MS Security Essentials protected Windows from Google's trojan horse valentine (metaphorically, of course).
Re:And here I thought Windows was the real virus.. (Score:5, Funny)