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Sophos Auto-updater detected as virus by Sophos itself

3 pointsby Jarshwahover 12 years ago

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prumanover 12 years ago
Not only that, but it detected update programs from other companies like Google and Adobe. In some cases it crippled software if Sophos was set to delete rather than deny. There are reports in their forum of companies with 20,000 PCs that got hit and in some cases had software crippled.