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Microsoft Anti-Spyware targets Norton Anti-Virus

by Jordan Running on February 13, 2006 at 02:55 PM

Microsoft Anti-SpywareThe Washington Post's Brian Krebs is reporting that a recent update to Microsoft Anti-Spyware "flags [Norton Anti-Virus] as a password-stealing program and prompts users to remove it." If the user removes the files as instructed by Anti-Spyware, Norton Anti-Virus ceases to function and cannot be reinstalled without some dicey registry editing. Oops. Microsoft says it's working on a fix for the problem.

Tags: anti-spyware, anti-virus, antivirus, microsoft, norton, spyware

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