This morning Malwarebytes released a patch that borked about 20k PCs ... mine included.
I went for a haircut and when I got home my PC showed a Malwarebytes warning the I was unprotected and asked me to enable protection. Then my PC started getting flaky until services started to crash. After a little sleuthing, I found this post https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/219996-important-web-blocking-ram-usage-issue/ which sort of explains it.
Oooops.
Oh well, as Forest says, (sh) it happens. They had the offending patch pulled almost immediately and a fix for the affected systems in under 2 hours. Sure they got some serious egg on their face, but they are taking the heat and standing up to say it's all on them.
Last year Webroot Antivirus released a bad definition patch that started to identify and quarantine Windows system files as malware. That was a pretty bad $h!tshow, too.
I went for a haircut and when I got home my PC showed a Malwarebytes warning the I was unprotected and asked me to enable protection. Then my PC started getting flaky until services started to crash. After a little sleuthing, I found this post https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/219996-important-web-blocking-ram-usage-issue/ which sort of explains it.
Oooops.
Oh well, as Forest says, (sh) it happens. They had the offending patch pulled almost immediately and a fix for the affected systems in under 2 hours. Sure they got some serious egg on their face, but they are taking the heat and standing up to say it's all on them.
Last year Webroot Antivirus released a bad definition patch that started to identify and quarantine Windows system files as malware. That was a pretty bad $h!tshow, too.
