Recently, Microsoft’s own antivirus software Defender has rolled over many times, first treating the Office update program as malware, and causing video playback problems in the new version of Win11, which made people laugh and cry. Recently, Defender has experienced a similar misjudgment problem again, this time the victim is the Chrome browser. According to feedback from system administrators, Chrome’s update program “GoogleUpdate.exe” was recently regarded as suspicious activity by Defender, and was blocked and reported. It is reported that this is because Chrome did not sign the “goopdate.dll” dynamic link library file of the update program, resulting in a misjudgment by Defender. At present, Microsoft officials have confirmed that the problem is a false positive and fixed it. In fact, this is not the first time that Defender has “accidentally injured” chrome. Last February, Chrome’s “sl.pak” was misidentified as malware, and Microsoft .
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