Webroot in Massive Failure with Monday Update
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AntiVirus vendor Weboot has update go out and nuke hundreds of legitimate files, according to Ars Technica. A few users here on ML reported the issue as well as several on Spiceworks. The update nuked hundreds of critical Windows operating system files, many critical line of business applications and even blacklisted Facebook.
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Webroot has yet to provide a definitive fix, but so far at least one user is reporting that uninstalling Webroot, restoring quarantined files from a backup drive, and then reinstalling Webroot seems to fix the problem.
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I have but one word:
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A sin bin list of mistakes by all AV vendors like this would be good. The Sophos update which tore itself apart as malware was especially funny.
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Did not affect any OS files for my clients, but it tore the hell out of a couple line of business apps at one client.
@TechnicalAngel has been working on it for hours last night and still today.
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I had a small handful of false positives, but it didn't bork anything luckily. First trouble we've had with webroot in 3 years.
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No webroot, this does not help.
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Rough week, first Webroot, now Netgear.
