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Feb 15

IE users stand down: Google not infected

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For a period of time yesterday (Tues 2/14/12) Microsoft’s security products, Forefront and Microsoft Security Essentials, reported that www.google.com was infected with the Blacole.BW exploit for users browsing with Internet Explorer.

It appears as though the definition updates Microsoft released alongside the other Patch Tuesday updates caused a false positive for google.com and users began …

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