Microsoft fingers Symantec anti-virus program as spyware By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service, 02/13/06 A problem with an update to Microsoft's Windows AntiSpyware program last week caused it to recommend ...
The one thing customers have said they're most interested in having is a single anti-virus/anti-spyware scanning engine." That plays right into Symantec's hands.
An update to Microsoft anti-spyware incorrectly labeled two versions of Symantec's anti-virus software as Trojan horse malware last week. Users of Windows AntiSpyware beta 1 were mistakenly warned ...
When Microsoft Anti-Spyware users remove the flagged Norton file as prompted, Symantec's product gets corrupted and no longer protects the user's machine.