Um, whoops?
From Computer World:
Skype users who have been getting strange error messages from Microsoft’s security products over the past week can breathe easy now. It was all a mistake.
Microsoft said Wednesday that a buggy antivirus definition update, released Friday, had mislabeled Skype as pop-up adware program called Win32/Vundo.gen!D. The issue was fixed Monday in a signature update, so users who have version 1.31.9121.0 of Microsoft’s malware signature file should be fine.
Microsoft’s security products were not removing Skype — simply blocking it from running — so users should not have to install any new software once they’ve updated their antivirus definitions. “Once the signatures are updated on the user’s machine, Skype will operate normally,” Microsoft’s public relations agency said in a statement.
Well, it could have always been worse. Annoying for Windows users that run Microsoft AV…wait a sec. Who runs this software? By which I mean, if you are a customer of this software how is it as a product? I haven’t seen this in action and I’m curious to know what kind of user experiences you may have had with it. Leave a comment if you’re feeling froggy.
