Defective Malwarebytes update erased data on thousands of PCs
The company Malwarebytes, which deals with products for protection against viruses, was in the center of the scandal. Another update to its products, which contained flaws, mistakenly took the usual system files for malicious code. As a result, destroyed data on thousands of client machines. The manufacturer has acknowledged the issue of the defective update and assured that its spread is stopped.
As written by representatives of Malwarebytes, because of flaws in the next list of virus signatures were affected thousands of computers around the world. After only eight minutes update has been removed from the servers of the company. Instantly thousands of people rushed to the assault support and forums to immediately correct the situation.
