Users were therefore a tad miffed at Windows making constant suggestions to the contrary. Hive is a nasty ransomware-as-a-service outfit, so it’s a good thing that Windows Defender antivirus can detect and warn against the presence of its pernicious products.īut neither Spotify nor Chrome are malware or ransomware (despite their info-harvesting practices). How much power is currently being consumed doing 'Full Scans'? #Microsoft Just shows what happens when there is a practical monopoly on the World's operating systems. Numerous social media and forum posts made over the weekend detail how Windows has produced a warning of “Behavior:Win32/Hive.ZY” when users run everyday applications like Google’s Chrome browser or the Spotify music streamer. Windows In endpoint protection solutions, a false positive is an entity, such as a file or a process that was detected and identified as malicious even though the entity isn't actually a threat.
Microsoft appears to have fixed a problem that saw its Defender antivirus program identify apps based on the Chromium browser engine and/or Electron JavaScript framework as malware, and suggest users remove them. Applies to: Defender for Endpoint Plan 1 Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 Microsoft Defender Antivirus Platforms.
