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Anti-Virus Bug Briefly Identified Windows Explorer as Malware

Posted in Security (December 25, 2007 at 11:19 pm)

SJ2000 writes “Windows Explorer was quarantined last week by Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus software after being falsely identified as malicious code. The security company’s systems had decided that a virus called Huhk-C was present in the explorer.exe file, leading to its confinement or, in some cases, deletion. The bug was only live in the wild for two hours, and ended up affecting just one corporate customer and a handful of home users.”

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