Friday, December 21st 2007
Kaspersky Update Quarantines Windows Explorer
We all know that Windows Explorer can be a bit of a nuisance from time to time, but classifying it as malware is a little extreme. However, that's just what an update for Kaspersky Lab's antivirus did earlier this week, resulting in explorer.exe being quarantined or, in extreme cases, deleted. The update, which was released at around 7:00pm on Wednesday, was only active for about two hours before Kaspersky became aware of the issue and withdrew it to limit the damaged it caused. David Emm, a senior technology consultant at Kaspersky, gave the following statement:
Source:
ZDNet.com
This is classic false-alarm territory. We will check through our systems and see if we can tighten them up so we don't run into this problem in the future. No antivirus company, including ourselves, can say they have never had a false alarm [but], on all fronts, we do what we can to minimise any potential risk for our customers.Fortunately only one corporate customer and a handful of home users have reported being affected by this problem.
8 Comments on Kaspersky Update Quarantines Windows Explorer
Having false alarms is something that is in the nature of AV software, but alerting to explorer.exe is just ridiculous. Though I'm really not surprised it came from Kaspersky, they false alarmed on pretty much everything in the 2 years I used it.
Didn't notice anything about this, but I boot so seldom that some updates aren't installed immidiately.