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Oh dear. No matter what the reality of the situation Microsoft ends up looking really terrible here.

• runjake 15y ago
  No they don't. This happens all the time with various anti-virus software. Modern software is complex. If it didn't get fixed promptly (it was fixed almost immediately), that's where looking terrible starts. For what it's worth, I run MSE & Chrome (2 run the beta, 1 runs release) on all 3 of my Windows 7 computers and none of them have flagged Chrome so far, so people's mileage may vary.
  • learc83 15y ago
    Doesn't look terrible to you, but just wait, sometime today I'll get an email from my mom with a link to a news story about how "microsoft was automatically uninstalling chrome."
    • wickedchicken 15y ago
      Wrong. "That chrome thing you installed was really a virus! I'm going back to the blue internet button, that worked better"
  • adamc 15y ago
    That's a technical answer to a perception issue. While you are correct, there will still be negative perceptions of Microsoft stemming from the incident, because a large fraction of the population will not think along those lines.
• avree 15y ago
  Not at all. Microsoft found and fixed this same-day. http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?name=PWS:Win32/Zbot&threatid=2147598479 http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia...