Antivirus Malwarebytes software taken down thousands of machines with false positive

Luckily though, a fix has been released for it - details are in one of the links on the article.

It's mainly users of the paid-for version that would have been affected, or free version users who happen to have updated during those 8 minutes.

Shane
 
I use avast - largely because I think it's possibly folly to have AV from the same company that made the vulnerable OS to begin with.

Avast hasn't steered me wrong yet. I've only had one false alarm and that was easy to rectify.
 
frogpipe said:
I use avast - largely because I think it's possibly folly to have AV from the same company that made the vulnerable OS to begin with.
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All operating systems are vulnerable to Malware attacks, currently Microsoft Windows is about the most secure operating system. Unix can be made secure but normally isn't since it doesn't have a tool like Windows update the updates aren't done and most production machines are vulnerable, Apple are about ten years behind Microsoft in security.

Cheerio John
 
I have malwarebytes full version and nothing happened. I have it set to warn me then update manually but I guess I missed the update? Phew! :wave:
 
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