Microsoft flagged Google as a Malware
- In: For Fun
Date: Feb 14 2012 (Valentine's Day).
Issue: Microsoft decided to do a Valentine's Day Massacre on Google.
Just kidding.
This is what happened.
Microsoft updated it's business and consumer security software and make a big boo-boo. Anyone with the latest update of Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Security Essentials saw Google homepage listed as infected with "Blackhole Exploit kit".
Here is a post excerpt from Microsoft Forefront forum
"My malware inspection updated to 1.119.1972.0 and within 5 minutes started blocking www.google.com because of JS/Blacole.BW. I'm almost sure this is a false positive."
The fix was in place after four hours. Note that this is not the first time Microsoft did this to Google. Last September, Microsoft deleted Google Chrome browser from over 3,000 computers without permission due to what is called an 'incorrect detection'.
Perhaps Google will retaliate one day.
