Sophos Issues Anti-Virus Update that Detects the Program Itself as a Virus

[Rob Williams]

This story couldn't be more perfect for a Friday. Sophos, a leading anti-virus provider, issued its detection updates as usual yesterday, and while this usually goes off without a hitch, there was a problem with this one. Somehow, the update managed to begin detecting Sophos itself as a virus. Shh/Updater-B, to be exact (I guess we're to keep it quiet?).

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[madmat]

... that's just too funny. Someone is getting an ass chewing over this I'm sure.

 

[Rob Williams]

Oh no doubt. It's not clear the number of people that were affected, but if most of this was concentrated to the enterprise... that is not going to bode well for Sophos.

 

[OriginalJoeCool]

 

[Tharic-Nar]

At least it's recoverable, unlike certain issues regarding a number of Anti-Virus companies flagging ATAPI.SYS as a virus at the same time... You know, that tiny little protocol responsible for a lot of data transfers on a modern system. Yeah, hundreds, if not thousands of computers turned into bricks that required either an OS re-install or some very selective commands to type if you were fortunate enough to have a recovery disk.