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Sophos false positive detection ruins weekend for some Windows users

A bad malware signature caused Sophos antivirus products to detect a critical Windows file as malicious on Sunday. The false positive detection flagged winlogon, an important component of the Windows Login subsystem, as a Trojan program called Troj/FarFli-CT. Sophos issued an update to fix the problem within a few hours and said that the issue only affected a specific 32-bit version of Windows 7 SP1 and not Windows XP, Vista, 8 or 10. Users who encountered the black screen will have to reboot in Safe Mode and then boot into the OS normally.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3116158/sophos-false-positive-detection-ruins-weekend-for-some-windows-users.html

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