Microsoft briefly derails Chrome users

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), a free utility for Windows-based computers that offers protection against malware, is catching Google's Chrome browser in its dragnet. A faulty signature update for MSE and Microsoft Forefront erroneously classified the Chrome executable file for Windows as an element of the Zeus trojan, notorious for stealing banking information, resulting in a large number of Chrome users being left without their bookmarks and browser plugins. While Microsoft responded within hours with an updated signature (1.113.672.0), and claimed only 3,000 customers were affected, the traffic on blogs and bulletin boards seemed to indicate the number could be much higher. Microsoft advised users to update MSE with the latest signatures and reinstall Chrome.

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