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| Source |  Network World |
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| Identifiant | 358679 |
| Date de publication | 2017-04-25 07:19:01 (vue: 2017-04-25 07:19:01) |
| Titre | Webroot deletes Windows files and causes serious problems for users |
| Texte | Users of Webroot's endpoint security product, consumers and businesses alike, had a nasty surprise Monday when the program started flagging Windows files as malicious.The reports quickly popped up on Twitter and continued on the Webroot community forum -- 14 pages and counting. The company came up with a manual fix to address the issue, but many users still had problems recovering their affected systems.The problem is what's known in the antivirus industry as a "false positive" -- a case where a clean file is flagged as malicious and is blocked or deleted. False positive incidents can range in impact from merely annoying -- for example, when a program cannot run anymore -- to crippling, where the OS itself is affected and no longer boots.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here |
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| Condensat | address affected alike annoying antivirus anymore article blocked boots businesses but came can cannot case causes clean click comment community company consumers continued counting crippling deleted deletes endpoint example false file files fix flagged flagging forum from full had here impact incidents industry issue itself known leave longer malicious manual many merely monday nasty pages please popped positive problem problems product program quickly range read recovering reports run security serious started surprise systems twitter users webroot what when where windows |
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