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September 20, 2012 05:05 pm

Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware


An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday afternoon anti-virus company Sophos Inc. released a normal anti-virus definition update that managed to detect parts of their own software as malicious code and disabled / deleted sections of their Endpoint security suite, including its ability to auto-update and thus repair itself. For many hours on the 19th, Sophos technical call centers were so busy customers were unable to even get through to wait on hold for assistance. Today thousands of enterprise customers remain crippled and unable to update their security software."Sophos points out that not everyone will be affected: "Please note this issue only affects Windows computers."

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