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Microsoft Forefront Antivirus Signature File False Positive
posted 2/15/2012 8:38:34 AM
closed 2/15/2012 8:30 AM
Who is affected?
Users of Microsoft Forefront antivirus software.
More details:
After close of business on Tuesday, February 14th, IT was aware of a problem with the Forefront signature file 1.119.1972.0 released by Microsoft earlier in the day. This signature file detected temporary Internet files from Google.com as malware, identified as "Exploit:JS/Blacole.BW."
Problem resolution:
As of start of business on Wednesday, February 15th, Microsoft had released Forefront signature file 1.119.2014.0 which no longer detects Google.com files as malware.
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