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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 1001421" data-attributes="member: 78686">Saw this on someone&#039;s PC tonight. Every time Edge was opened, there was this detection from Defender. But Chrome wasn&#039;t affected on this device. Also, it didn&#039;t stop Edge from running. Edge functioned just fine. I thought the device has been infected till I saw the BleepingComputer tweet. As they stated, it has been fixed. I think it was fixed rather quickly, but since Defender updates the local signature only once a day on a device by default, most people&#039;s device wasn&#039;t updated to the signature version where it was fixed till they force updated and restarted the system. Cache for previous detections are usually removed after a restart and also a signature update is performed after a few minutes.Funny thing is, almost everyday multiple times I check what threat has been added/updated on MD&#039;s database and I saw this one too when it was the latest update at that time. I was thinking that it&#039;s nice that they have added a behavioral detection for this ransomware. Who knew that this would end up causing this dilemma!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 1001421, member: 78686"] Saw this on someone's PC tonight. Every time Edge was opened, there was this detection from Defender. But Chrome wasn't affected on this device. Also, it didn't stop Edge from running. Edge functioned just fine. I thought the device has been infected till I saw the BleepingComputer tweet. As they stated, it has been fixed. I think it was fixed rather quickly, but since Defender updates the local signature only once a day on a device by default, most people's device wasn't updated to the signature version where it was fixed till they force updated and restarted the system. Cache for previous detections are usually removed after a restart and also a signature update is performed after a few minutes. Funny thing is, almost everyday multiple times I check what threat has been added/updated on MD's database and I saw this one too when it was the latest update at that time. I was thinking that it's nice that they have added a behavioral detection for this ransomware. Who knew that this would end up causing this dilemma! [/QUOTE]

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