{"id":35070,"date":"2011-10-01T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T05:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35070"},"modified":"2011-10-03T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T09:40:40","slug":"microsoft-security-essentials-nails-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/35070-microsoft-security-essentials-nails-chrome.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Security Essentials nails Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> raced Friday to fix an anti-virus program that targeted <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google&#8217;s<\/a> Chrome browsing software as a malicious threat and kicked it off computers.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said the case of mistaken coding identity lasted about three hours and affected about 3,000 users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An incorrect detection for PWS:Win32\/Zbot was identified and as a result, Google Chrome was inadvertently blocked and in some cases removed from customers&#8217; PCs&#8221; (personal computers), Microsoft said at a malware protection <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>An update to free Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus software had mistakenly targeted Chrome as a troublesome computer virus tailored to steal online banking information. Microsoft apologized for the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft raced Friday to fix an anti-virus program that targeted Google&#8217;s Chrome browsing software<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":26433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1567,161,167,35,5284,5286],"class_list":["post-35070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-headline","tag-microsoft-security-essentials","tag-microsogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}