Sophos has admitted that it suffered a false positive incident last night when its own anti-virus software began detecting an update as malware. [1] For most people a computer virus is a “bad” thing. However few people actually understand that usual update programs actually replicate many of the functions of a computer virus, even the “harm the target computer” one…
Perception is a powerful tool of distraction.
[…] company networks. It is not the first time a computer anti-virus update results in a disaster (see here for […]